Piece of Cake Elaine Kahn Meza’s authorial style and references

Meza’s authorial style and references to a millenary Amerindian culture jointly point to another way of conceiving the world

Sometimes it brought me to tears and I’m not even sure why

politics and gender

the Boston-based Jonas was a pioneer of the serial poem and an erudite mentor to such acknowledged masters as Jack Spicer and John Wieners

and guts of the carnal

Piece of Cake Elaine Kahn Meza’s authorial style and referencesBernadette 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