Studying Hunger Journals charles theonia and an anthology of poets

and an anthology of poets who died of AIDS

" Jackson writes and the dead matter of history hums

Enigmatic without ever being coy

these poems are time-stamped and often dedicated to friends they address

Sjeng Scheijen

Studying Hunger Journals charles theonia and an anthology of poetsBernadette 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