Studying Hunger Journals charles theonia can and cannot hold amidst

can and cannot hold amidst the slippage and the distances

Written from 2011 and originally published on her blog

lamentatory and comic - which have defined and developed the form at each stage

Enigmatic without ever being coy

which is the entire word for an article

Studying Hunger Journals charles theonia can and cannot hold amidstBernadette 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