Overview

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. 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."

ISBN-13

9780446394239

ISBN-10

0446394238

Weight

0.75 Pounds

Dimensions

8.75 x 1.00 x 11.25 In

List Price

$16.00

Format

Paperback

Pages

150 pages

Publisher

Educational Testing Serv

Published On

1992-04-01



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