Studying Hunger Journals Dolores Dorantes Hester Knibbe

Hester Knibbe

it is a deeply sensitive coming-of-age poetics

wanneer die gericht en oprecht wordt ingezet

she was paroled in 1976

Studying Hunger Journals Dolores Dorantes Hester KnibbeBernadette 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