Studying Hunger Journals

by Bernadette Mayer

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1581771207
• ISBN13: 9781581771206
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Station Hill Press
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"