Studying Hunger Journals by Mayer, Bernadette

Studying Hunger Journals (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781581771206)

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Studying Hunger Journals by Mayer, Bernadette

Studying Hunger Journals

$24.95
Studying Hunger Journals by Mayer, Bernadette

Studying Hunger Journals

$24.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Bernadette Mayer
ISBN-10: 1581771207
ISBN-13: 9781581771206
Publisher: Station Hill Press
Language: English
Published: 06/15/2011
Pages: 460
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.30d
By Bernadette Mayer
By Bernadette Mayer
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Bernadette Mayer was born in Brooklyn, New York, and received her B.A. from the New School for Social Research in 1967. She is the author of more than two dozen volumes of poetry. From 1972 to 1974, Mayer and conceptual artist Vito Acconci edited the journal 0 TO 9, and in 1977 she established United Artists Press with the poet Lewis Warsh. She has taught writing workshops at The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in New York City for many years, and she served as the Poetry Project's director.

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