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Studying Hunger Journals

Studying Hunger Journals

Mayer, Bernadette

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ISBN10: 1581771207
ISBN13: 9781581771206
Publisher: Station Hill Press
Published: Jun 15 2011
Pages: 460
Weight: 1.55
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
In 1972 Bernadette Mayer began this project as an aid to psychological counseling, writing in parallel journals so that, as she wrote in one (in bed, on subways, at parties, etc.), her psychiatrist read the other. Using colored pens to color-code emotions, she recorded dreams, events, memories, and reflections in a language at once free-ranging and precise-a work that creates its own poetics. She sought a workable code, or shorthand, for the transcription of every event, every motion, every transition of her own mind and to perform this process of translation on herself in the interest of evolving an innovative, inquiring language. Studying Hunger Journals registers this intention within a body of poetry John Ashbery has called magnificent.

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