Studying Hunger Journals Paperback / softback
by Bernadette Mayer
Paperback / softback
Description
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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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:460 pages
- Publisher:Station Hill Press,U.S.
- Publication Date:15/06/2011
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- ISBN:9781581771206
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:460 pages
- Publisher:Station Hill Press,U.S.
- Publication Date:15/06/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781581771206