Studying Hunger Journals charles theonia Enigmatic without ever being coy

Enigmatic without ever being coy

his influence spanned the national literary scene of the 1950s and '60s

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can and cannot hold amidst the slippage and the distances

Studying Hunger Journals charles theonia Enigmatic without ever being coyBernadette 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 coloured 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