NY: Angel Hair Books, 1977. Edition of 400. [41] leaves, printed rectos only. 4to. Side-stapled in illustrated wraps. Irregular toning to covers; toning to textblock edges; light wear. Very good.
An uncommon work of experimental prose-poetry by New York School poet Bernadette Mayer (1945-2022), who also supplied the cover illustration. Described thus by Mayer in The Angel Hair Anthology (p. 591): "Eruditio was done from random pages ripped from my school notebooks in which I obviously did some drawing. It was fun to write and I think I did it to use the Latin word for memory. I was moving and didn't want to throw all my notebooks away so I decided to rip out pages by chance and someday use them, as I did. It was reviewed in a northwest small press magazine and I don't think anybody read it except the publishers and Ted Berrigan. Certainly nobody asked me what it was except of course Ted. It ended with a wonderful conceit about a woman turning away from a bowl and then, ghazal-like, I say my name." Clay and Phillips, A Secret Location..., p. 180.
