The Letters of Rosemary and Bernadette Mayer, 1976-1980 Nachtschade the student of modernism and

the student of modernism and the Beckett specialist

toward translation

those able to make an enclosure or a block into music

apparitions both complicates and clarifies the contesting and lasting forces of empire

more permeable self is restored to the collective where it belongs

The Letters of Rosemary and Bernadette Mayer, 1976-1980 Nachtschade the student of modernism andRosemary & Bernadette Mayer This collection of the correspondence between artist Rosemary Mayer (1943 2014) and poet Bernadette Mayer (born 1945) occurs between the years of 1976 and 1980, a period of rich creativity in New York's artistic avant garde, and one which includes the development of major bodies of work by the two women. Rosemary Mayer was creating sculptures, watercolors, books and "temporary monuments" from weather balloons and snow,