Ways of Making Dinner single work   poetry   "As one blade sharpens another blade."
Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Ways of Making Dinner
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  • Author's note: After Hera Lindsay Bird
    After Bernadette Mayer
    Epigraph:

    In the 1980s, Bernadette Mayer instructed:
    “Write the poem: Ways of Making Love. List them.”
    In 2016, Hera Lindsay Bird published ‘Ways of Making Love after Bernadette Mayer’.

    Back in the 1980s, Mayer instructed:
    “Rewrite someone else’s writing. Experiment with theft and plagiarism.”
    In 2021, I re-write Bird’s ‘Ways of Making Love after Bernadette Mayer’ (2016), as
    ‘Ways of Making Dinner after Hera Lindsay Bird after Bernadette Mayer’.

    I insert myself into a game between two writers.
    Uninvited, but hopefully not unwelcome, I play.
    As if we all knew the rules from the beginning.

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    y separately published work icon Cordite Poetry Review Game no. 102 August 2021 22536644 2021 periodical issue

    'As we write this, we are living in cities that are both in lockdown. Our days see us bouncing from one device to another, room to room to room. In these days that feel increasingly unreal, it’s invigorating to look back over the selections for this edition and step back into the magic circles marked out by each poem.' (Jini Maxwell  and Rory Green , Editorial introduction)

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