My introduction to Bernadette Mayer, reading with Clark Coolidge at the Colby College Art Museum on 14 June 2008, as part of the National Poetry Foundation Poetry of the 1970s Conference: an ABC of Mayer's literary biography.

This paper examines some of the intriguing parallels between Bernadette Mayer's 1970s writing experiments, with a focus on the book Studying Hunger, and Thoreau's writing projects in Walden and The Journals.   I wager that we might locate <continued>