Scherzos Benjyosos De vrolijke tijd or to memorialize a particular

or to memorialize a particular moment or person

the poems fixate on alternating relations between text and image that blur into relations between mind and body

As the poet herself notes: “My name is Bernadette Mayer

Part poetry and part reportage

maar de autobiografie van een aantal

Scherzos Benjyosos De vrolijke tijd or to memorialize a particularKeston Sutherland Published in Amsterdam by Phil Baber's The Last Books, Scherzos Benjyosos is a set of four poems, scherzos in prosimetrical blocks, a comical, wild, and delirious sifting through the carnage of the financial crash, the dreamscapes of capitalist infancy, histories of sadism and persecution, the fetish bars of canonical literature, and the psychoanalysis of grass. The book also includes 'Sinking Feeling', Sutherlands long poem from