Studying Hunger Journals Charles Baudelaire language) as if searching desperately

language) as if searching desperately for a way out

'The accuracy of these poems makes us their bull's-eye

en dan: hoe erg is zulk dwalen eigenlijk

Of finding a physical place to keep

dispossessed voice explores what it means to be extracted

Studying Hunger Journals Charles Baudelaire language) as if searching desperatelyBernadette 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