Story life-work Black Case Volume I and

Black Case Volume I and II: Return From Exile is a collection of writing conceived across America and Europe between 1960 and 1975

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Story life-work Black Case Volume I andNew York: Bernadette Mayer's first book. Published at only 23 years old, by 0 to 9, the press and poetry journal she edited with Vito Acconci. In A Lecture at the Naropa Institute, 1989, Mayer recalls:"The way it came into being was I wrote a story that was about falling down, tripping and falling down. It was nicely written, experimentally so, but it seemed dull. So I tried to figure out what to do with it; and being a twenty year old person at the