At Maureen's

At Maureen's is a double journal offering a Rashomon-like take on a month spent housesitting in Connecticut. Two poets from the bohemian enclaves of the East Village of Manhattan do what they can to acclimate to their new rural surroundings: a horse, raspberries, visitors, diapers, books, each other and sustained moments of concentration.It's back to the garden for two writers and their families and friends. Only in this patch, which are weeds and which are flowers is not so certain. Two perspectives of the proceedings are on offer with sustained moments of concentration that enhance the details. Wonder and love blossom too.At the time this book was written, summer 1981, Bernadette Mayer was director of the Poetry Project, a literary center housed in St. Mark’s Church in the East Village of Manhattan. She is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, including A Bernadette Mayer Reader and The Helens of Troy, NY (New Directions). Greg Masters was born in Passaic, New Jersey and has lived in the East Village of Manhattan for the past 40 years. In addition to his art writing for various publications, he was an editor of the Poetry Project Newsletter; was co-editor, with Michael Scholnick and Gary Lenhart, of Mag City, a poetry magazine; was co-editor (with Sheila Keenan), of HOWL! Souvenir Book (FEVA, 2003); and is publisher of Crony Books. His poetry books include In the Air (1978) and My Women and Men, Part 2 (1980). He is the author of Stumbling into Modernity: Isaac Bashevis Singer's Cling to Tradition (Crony Books, 2012), and For the Artists: Critical Writing, Vol. 1 (Crony Books, January 2014).At Maureen's is available for $16.99 from Crony Books: www.cronybooks.net.An ebook version is available for around $9.99 from most ebook publishers.Crony Books • [email protected] • www.cronybooks.net