Piece of Cake Saretta Morgan

Piece of Cake Saretta MorganBernadette Mayer & Lewis Warsh Bernadette Mayer and Lewis Warsh wrote Piece of Cake as a work of collaborative prose poetry, based on a process of each writing on alternate days in the course of August of 1976 the bicentennial year of the America's Declaration of Independence. It recounts the quotidian details of daily activities, negotiating the exigencies of young, married with children life, the artistic path and citizenship. It has the classic "I

The politics and poetics of language

' – Johannes Göransson

these texts take on the etymological condition of the essay as “attempt” with iridescent siege

comes a book-length poem that plunges us more deeply into the notion of the idyll and into the polyhedric structure of love

even as it sings the praise of the minor

These poems shift and eddy

" of a poet and a visual artist in dialogue

the others relate more obliquely to her life and legacy

Supplication

and yet the bird messengers avouch disaster

Nonetheless I send them to everyone I know

the poet is aware that while Roget seems obsessed with categories and hierarchies