Studying Hunger Journals

Studying Hunger Journals

Bernadette Mayer

Station Hill Press, 460 pgs, $24.95


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 colored 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 shorthand, for the transcription of every event, every motion, every transition” of her own mind and to “perform this process of translation” on herself in the interest of evolving an innovative, inquiring language. Studying Hunger Journals registers this intention within a body of poetry John Ashbery has called “magnificent.”

Made public at last in its gorgeous various and unstinting entirety, Studying Hunger Journals reveals itself to be one of the great in fact epic works of a movement that could never be given a name. No label fit for such limitless activity, its terms being those of our restless language and its relentless go-betweens that move and may alter. Attend therefore and let them have their way, these words given without let and best received in kind.
—Clark Coolidge

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AWP DC!! Feb 3rd, 4th, & 5th

Thursday, February 3rd, 6-8 PM
The University of California Press Book Party for
THE SELECTED POEMS OF TED BERRIGAN
& THE H.D. BOOK BY ROBERT DUNCAN
with Anselm Berrigan, Cole Swensen, & Rod Smith
@ Bridge Street Books, 2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC

Thursday, February 3rd, 8 PM
Bridge Street Books presents
THE FOUR SEASONS AWP READING
featuring 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning author RAE ARMANTROUT
& internationally recognized poets ANSELM BERRIGAN, TIMOTHY DONNELLY, ROBERT FERNANDEZ, CATHY PARK HONG, ISH KLEIN, K. SILEM MOHAMMAD, CHRIS NEALON, MEL NICHOLS, ED ROBERSON, ELIZABETH WILLIS, & MATHEW ZAPRUDER
@The Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown, 2800 Pennsylvania Ave NW.

Friday, February 4th, 7 PM
THE EDGE READING SERIES
presents The Bridge Street Books AWP reading
ROSMARIE WALDROP, COLE SWENSEN, SASHA STEENSEN, JANE SPRAGUE, ELIZABETH ROBINSON,
EILEEN MYLES, LAURA MORIARTY, MARK MCMORRIS, LEE ANN BROWN, & CHARLES ALEXANDER
@ Bridge Street Books, 2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC

Saturday, February 5th, 1 PM
The Song Cave AWP reading featuring
MACGREGOR CARD, ANDY FITCH, AMARANTH BORSUK,
JANE GREGORY, AMANDA NADELBERG, ROD SMITH,
& JARED STANLEY. With your host BEN ESTES.
@ Bridge Street Books, 2814 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Saturday February 5th, 5 PM
The EDGE BOOKS/ABRAHAM LINCOLN/WEST WIND REVIEW AWP Reading
Leslie Bumstead, Shanna Compton, Brandon Downing, Buck Downs, Cathy Eisenhower, K. Lorraine Graham, Dan Gutstein, Lacey Hunter, Doug Lang, K. Silem Mohammad, Christopher Nealon, Mel Nichols, A.L. Nielsen, Tom Orange, Adam Roberts, Sandra Simonds, Rod Smith, Gary Sullivan, & Ryan Walker
@ THE REEF, 2446 18th Street NW, Washington DC

AWP Reading @ Bridge Street, Fri. 2/4, 7 PM

THE EDGE READING SERIES
presents The Bridge Street Books AWP reading

Friday, February 4th, 7 PM

@ Bridge Street Books, 2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC

ROSMARIE WALDROP, COLE SWENSEN, SASHA STEENSEN,
JANE SPRAGUE, ELIZABETH ROBINSON, EILEEN MYLES,
MARK MCMORRIS, LAURA MORIARTY, LEE ANN BROWN,
& CHARLES ALEXANDER

Please be advised that space is limited, we recommend that you
come early to assure admission.

Ted Berrigan/Robert Duncan Book Party @ Bridge Street Books, Thurs 2/3, 6-8 PM, w/ Anselm Berrigan, Cole Swensen, & Rod Smith

Please join Bridge Street Books
& The University of California Press
for a publication celebration

Thursday, February 3rd, 6-8 PM

THE SELECTED POEMS OF TED BERRIGAN
&
THE H.D. BOOK BY ROBERT DUNCAN

Poet & editor ANSELM BERRIGAN will present a short reading/talk on The Selected Poems. COLE SWENSEN and ROD SMITH will speak on The H.D. Book.

@ Bridge Street Books, 2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC

The H.D. Book
Robert Duncan

This magisterial work, long awaited and long the subject of passionate speculation, is an unprecedented exploration of modern poetry and poetics by one of America’s most acclaimed and influential postwar poets. What began in 1959 as a simple homage to the modernist poet H.D. developed into an expansive and unique quest to arrive at a poetics that would fuel Duncan’s great work in the 1970s A meditation on both the roots of modernism and its manifestation in the work of H.D., Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, William Carlos Williams, Edith Sitwell, and many others, Duncan’s wide-ranging book is especially notable for its illumination of the role women played in creation of literary modernism. Until now, The H.D. Book existed only in mostly out-of-print little magazines in which its chapters first appeared. Now, for the first time published in its entirety, as its author intended, this monumental work—at once an encyclopedia of modernism, a reinterpretation of its key players and texts, and a record of Duncan’s quest toward a new poetics—is at last complete and available to a wide audience.

The Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan

Following the highly acclaimed Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan, poets Alice Notley, Anselm Berrigan, and Edmund Berrigan have collaborated again on this new selection of poems by one of the most influential and admired poets of his generation. Reflecting a new editorial approach, this volume demonstrates the breadth of Ted Berrigan’s poetic accomplishments by presenting his most celebrated, interesting, and important work. This major second-wave New York School poet is often identified with his early poems, especially The Sonnets, but this selection encompasses his full poetic output, including the later sequences Easter Monday and A Certain Slant of Sunlight, as well as many of his uncollected poems. The Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan provides a new perspective for those already familiar with his remarkable wit and invention, and introduces new readers to what John Ashbery called the “crazy energy” of this iconoclastic, funny, brilliant, and highly innovative writer.

Anselm Berrigan's most recent book is Free Cell (City Lights, 2009). He is the author of three collections from Edge Books, Integrity Dramatic Life, Zero Star Hotel, and Some Notes on My Programming. He directed The Poetry Project at Saint Mark's Church from 2003 through 2007, and is currently co-chair of the writing program at Bard College summer MFA program, and a professor at Wesleyan University. He co-edited the recently released Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan with Edmund Berrigan for The University of California Press.

Cole Swensen's latest book is Greensward (Ugly Duckling) She teaches
poetry at the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. Her books
include Ours, Goest, Such Rich Hour, Oh, Try, and Noon. Her poetry
has won the Iowa Poetry Prize and the SF State Poetry Center Book
Award. She is the editor/publisher of La Presse which has
published works in translation by Marie Borel, Emmanuel Hocquard,
Claude Royet-Journoud, & others. Swensen is also a translator and has
won the PEN USA Award in Literary Translation. She teaches at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Rod Smith is the author of Deed, Music or Honesty, Protective
Immediacy, and In Memory of My Theories. He edits the journal
Aerial, publishes Edge Books, and manages Bridge Street Books in
Washington, DC. Smith is also editing The Selected Letters of
Robert Creeley with Kaplan Harris and Peter Baker for The
University of California Press. He was a Visiting Professor
in Poetry at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Spring 2010.

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Located in Georgetown, next to the Four Seasons Hotel, five blocks from the
Foggy Bottom Metro, blue & orange lines.

UPCOMING READINGS:

Immediately following the Duncan/Berrigan book party:

Thursday, February 3rd, 8 PM
Bridge Street Books presents
THE FOUR SEASONS AWP READING
featuring 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning author RAE ARMANTROUT
& internationally recognized poets ANSELM BERRIGAN, TIMOTHY DONNELLY, ROBERT FERNANDEZ, CATHY PARK HONG, ISH KLEIN, K. SILEM MOHAMMAD, CHRIS NEALON, MEL NICHOLS, ED ROBERSON, ELIZABETH WILLIS, & MATHEW ZAPRUDER
@The Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown, 2800 Pennsylvania Ave NW.
Next door to Bridge Street Books.

Friday, February 4th, 7 PM
Bridge Street Books AWP reading
ROSMARIE WALDROP, COLE SWENSEN, SASHA STEENSEN, JANE SPRAGUE, ELIZABETH ROBINSON,
MARK MCMORRIS, LAURA MORIARTY, LEE ANN BROWN, & CHARLES ALEXANDER
@ Bridge Street Books, 2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC

Saturday, February 5th, 1 PM
The Song Cave AWP reading featuring
MACGREGOR CARD, ANDY FITCH, AMARANTH BORSUK,
JANE GREGORY, AMANDA NADELBERG, ROD SMITH,
& JARED STANLEY. Hosted by Ben Estes.
@ Bridge Street Books, 2814 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Saturday February 5th, 5 PM
The EDGE BOOKS/ABRAHAM LINCOLN/WEST WIND REVIEW AWP Reading
Marie Buck, Leslie Bumstead, Shanna Compton, Brandon Downing, Buck Downs, Cathy Eisenhower, K. Lorraine Graham, Dan Gutstein, Lacey Hunter, Ish Klein, Doug Lang, Emily Liebowitz, K. Silem Mohammad, Chris Nealon, Mel Nichols, A.L. Nielsen, Tom Orange, Adam Roberts, Sandra Simonds, Rod Smith, Gary Sullivan, Anna Vitale, & Ryan Walker
@ THE REEF, 2446 18th Street NW, Washington DC

The Song Cave AWP Reading @ Bridge Street Books, Saturday 2/5, 1 PM

Saturday, Feb 5th, 1 PM

The Song Cave AWP reading featuring
MACGREGOR CARD, ANDY FITCH, AMARANTH BORSUK,
JANE GREGORY, AMANDA NADELBERG, ROD SMITH,
& JARED STANLEY. Hosted by Ben Estes.

@ Bridge Street Books
2814 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Macgregor Card is the author of The Archers, from The Song Cave. He lives in Queens New York and teaches at Pratt Institute. His first book Duties of an English Foreign Secretary was published by Fence Books. With Andrew Maxwell he edited The Germ: a journal of poetic research.

Jared Stanley is the author of How The Desert Did Me In, from The Song Cave. He lives in Merced California and is also the author of three chapbooks and the collection Book Made of Forest, published by Salt, and an editor of the journal Mrs. Maybe.

Amaranth Borsuk is the author of Tonal Saw, from The Song Cave. She currently lives in Boston Massachusetts, and is the co-curator of the reading series The Loudest Voice, in Los Angeles. Her work has been published in Denver Quarterly and Colorado Review (among others), and is the author of the digital pop-up book Between Page and Screen.

Andy Fitch is the author of Island, from The Song Cave. He currently lives in Laramie Wyoming, and teaches at the University of Wyoming. He is the author of Ten Walks / Two Talks published by Ugly Duckling Presse, and Andy's book Not Intelligent, But Smart: Rethinking Joe Brainard is forthcoming from Dalkey Archive Press.

Amanda Nadelberg is the author of Building Castles in Spain, Getting Married, from The Song Cave. She currently lives in Orleans Massachusetts, and is the author of Isa, The Truck Named Isadore published by Slope Editions. Her next book Bright Brave Phenomena, is forthcoming from Coffee House Press.

Jane Gregory is the author of Some Books, from The Song Cave. She currently lives in Berkeley California. Her work has appeared in Notnostrums, Jerry, Mary, and Mutha Fucka.

Rod Smith is the author of What's The Deal, from The Song Cave. He lives in Washington D.C. and is the author of Deed, Music or Honesty, Protective Immediacy, and In Memory of My Theories. He is also editing The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley with Kaplan Harris and Peter Baker for The University of California Press.

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