THE DESIRE OF MOTHERS TO PLEASE OTHERS IN LETTERS by Bernadette Mayer (true first edition)

Hard Press, 2001, First edition, 72 pp., 6" X 8 1/4", Softcover

(Not to be confused with the 2017 reprint by Nightboat Books)

Fine

A monumental St. Bernadette to the initiates, this work has achieved something like the status of Manuscript Classic. An epistolary text which takes as its formal parameters the nine months of Ms. Mayers last pregnancy an augury by bee sting and writes the readers psyche to the fences.  - From the publisher

Scarce in this edition