The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters Dictee Delgado follows the late Ulises

Delgado follows the late Ulises Carrión in enacting a networked book art where “communication is still inter-subjective

filled with desiring bodies

Arnold Spauwen

called Hopelessness and published by the 87 Press

now called ‘G’

The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters Dictee Delgado follows the late UlisesBernadette Mayer Endlessly inclusive, The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters, first published in 1994 and long out of print, evokes the complexity of real persons as it simultaneously reinvents multiple genres: epistle, prose poem, and memoir. Written between 1979 and 1980 while pregnant with her third child, Mayer extends her imaginative letters into meditations for us all on life as it is lived in real time, with its responsibilities and