these poems are time-stamped and often dedicated to friends they address
Both his books — like his paintings — have a thrice-distilled quality of finality and impersonality
his influence spanned the national literary scene of the 1950s and '60s
lamentatory and comic - which have defined and developed the form at each stage
" Jackson writes and the dead matter of history hums
Studying Hunger Journals charles theonia these poems are time-stamped andBernadette 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