Leisure, Utopic (2024)
The first of several adaptations of a section of Bernadette Mayer’s ‘Utopia’ (1984) published by Artist Editions. This is chapter 4. On the Arrangement of Houses & Buildings, Birth, Death, Money, Schools, Dentists, Birth Control, Work, Air, Remedies, and so on . . .
Artist Editions was Mayer’s own publishing initiative co-founded with fellow poet Lewis Walsh in 1977 in Lenox Massachususetts as a means of staying in touch with poets and friends they had left behind jn New York City.