Studying Hunger Journals Stephane BouquetBernadette 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
of lexical variation and sonic beauty
stay almost still as you would if you were trying to locate a sound
written in the same stanzaic form
witch trials and the suffragettes
In an outdoor market
noticing all the connections
Rooted in the classical tradition of the Chinese “reversible” poem
and libraries rise from the ruins as Palestinians go on about their lives
poet and critic Steven Zultanski offers an array of interpretations of this technique
"Taking on false conceptions of mistaking “a walled garden for the world
shaping a verse of testimony
In zijn vijfde dichtbundel zet Stitou een wereld neer die zowel archaïsch is als hedendaags
