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Sonnets by Bernadette Mayer

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bernadette's a big one still alive and hugely important for the experimental movers & shakers I like today which is part of what makes this collection so bizarre it was written in the 80s but would pass so easily as experimental & cutting edge of today. I like to think this is partly BM taking cues from the eternal Gertrude Stein and unpeeling a few layers of the sexual heart there - that Tender Button is a term for the clitoris and devising porno sonnets or discomfort sonnets and so forth I think it resembles required reading for this breathing experimentalism
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