The Letters of Rosemary & Bernadette Mayer, 1976-1980

This collection of correspondence between artist Rosemary Mayer (1943-2014) and poet Bernadette Mayer (born 1945) takes place 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, while Bernadette Mayer was living in Lenox, Massachusetts and working on some of her best-known publications, including the book-length poem Midwinter Pay and the poetry collection The Golden Book of Words, Spanning the worlds of conceptual art, postminimalism, feminism, the New York School, Language poetry and more, these letters elucidate the bonds of sisterhood through intimate exchanges about art, relationships and everyday life.