Enigmatic without ever being coy
lamentatory and comic - which have defined and developed the form at each stage
which is the entire word for an article
these poems are time-stamped and often dedicated to friends they address
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