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lamentatory and comic - which have defined and developed the form at each stage

Enigmatic without ever being coy

Both his books — like his paintings — have a thrice-distilled quality of finality and impersonality

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

his influence spanned the national literary scene of the 1950s and '60s

Studying Hunger Journals charles theonia lamentatory and comic - whichBernadette 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