The Letters of Rosemary and Bernadette Mayer, 1976-1980 Nachtschade A simultaneity of voices and

A simultaneity of voices and identities rises and falls

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

At one point he does ‘bottles’ with ‘pedestals’

the student of modernism and the Beckett specialist

toward translation

The Letters of Rosemary and Bernadette Mayer, 1976-1980 Nachtschade A simultaneity of voices 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,