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Excavating the Mind [1]

Poetry [2]
4.28.20

“It’s astonishing to me that there is so much in Memory, yet so much is left out: emotions, thoughts, sex, the relationship between poetry and light,” writes Bernadette Mayer in the introduction to her book Memory (Siglio Press, 2020), featured in the Written Image [3] in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine. The book presents a collection of photographs and text from 1971 when Mayer shot a roll of film every day for the month of July and wrote in a journal—a record of her consciousness. Taking inspiration from this project, jot down notes describing several images and observations each day this week. Then, write a poem that combines them into a single, sequential mass, a contemporaneous manifestation of your conscious mind.


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/excavating_the_mind [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/poetry [3] https://www.pw.org/content/the_written_image_bernadette_mayers_memory