Particle/Word Theory
104 pp.
12 images of drawings, thread stitched
Wiens Verlag, Berlin & Edition Hansjörg Mayer, London 2020
Particle/Word Theory is Jimmie Durham's third poetry book after Columbus Day (Albuquerque 1983) and Poems That Do Not Go Together (Berlin, London 2012). The new book contains thirty-eight poems, written between 2014 and 2019 and twelve drawings. Durham's sculptures as well as his texts are made out of fragments, they are a lifelong statement against monumentality. Durham observes nature, thinks about the try to categorise and name nature and he reflects about unspectacular, daily behaviour of animals and humans–himself included. In his new poems he cites also scientific studies, articles about brain and pain research–all this stands next to his own pain experience. It underlines a provocative sentence he wrote in 1998: 'Art and science are the same thing'.
Special edition available: 12 Original drawings on paper, graphite and / or ink, each 29.7 x 21 cm, signed & dated, presented in a custom-made cardboard box
