
Eckhart Cars
Peter Jaeger(Author)
Salt Publishing
Published on 1. March 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
140 pages
978-1-84471-037-9 (ISBN)
Description
Eckhart Cars consists of a series of 18 poems. Although conceptually related, the individual poems are formally distinct from one another. The book draws on a number of source texts, with a specific focus on representations of the human body and the physical world. Source texts range from Meister Eckhart through Schlegel to contemporary anatomical textbooks and out of date driver instruction manuals. While Eckhart Cars often foregrounds the body through its "translation" of temporal, bodily rhythms into writing, it also complicates this so-called translation by using found text and digitally-enhanced forms. The book could be situated in a genealogy running parallel to the sources mentioned above, but it also dialogues with current North American and UK poetries which stress formal innovation, and which problematise the issue of representation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84471-037-9 (9781844710379)
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Person
Peter Jaeger was born in Montreal, Canada. He has taught writing and theory at Dartington College of Arts, The University of Toronto, and Royal Holloway, University of London. He currently teaches Creative Writing at Roehampton University. His previous publications include Power Lawn (1999), ABC of Reading TRG (1999), and Eckhart Cars (Salt Publishing, 2004).
Content
Eckhart Cars
Pollard
Extension of Standard Practice
Pollen
Midwest
So They Say
A Book I Am Dreaming
Sub-Twang Mustard
Narrow
Early Gardening
Buoyant
Sitting
Bibliodoppler
A Black Tooth In Front
Aggressive Leisure
Stabled
Pollard
Extension of Standard Practice
Pollen
Midwest
So They Say
A Book I Am Dreaming
Sub-Twang Mustard
Narrow
Early Gardening
Buoyant
Sitting
Bibliodoppler
A Black Tooth In Front
Aggressive Leisure
Stabled