Ebook {Epub PDF} Anatomic by Adam Dickinson

Anatomic, Adam Dickinson's fourth collection, plays throughout on the meanings of. corpus —fleshy body and textual body. How microbial species and chemical substances write our bodies is the impetus behind this project in which conceptual art, bioart, and ecopoetics meet. A paratextual endnote explains that Dickinson sent off his feces, urine,Author: Heather Houser. The poems of Anatomic have emerged from biomonitoring and microbiome testing on the author's body to examine the way the outside writes the inside, whether we like it or not. Adam Dickinson drew blood, collected urine, swabbed bacteria, and tested his feces to measure the precise chemical and microbial diversity of his body/5(7). "The poems of Anatomic have emerged from biomonitoring and microbiome testing on the author's body to examine the way the outside writes the inside, whether we like it or not. Adam Dickinson drew blood, collected urine, swabbed bacteria, and tested his feces to measure the precise chemical and microbial diversity of his body. To his horror, he discovered that our "petroculture" has infiltrated.

Adam Dickinson. 'Anatomic': Cover Image. Anatomic is an attempt to think of writing in a more expanded way by incorporating the results of chemical and microbial testing on my body into poems that examine, through personal, biological, industrial, and cultural contexts, how the "outside" writes the "inside" in necessary and toxic ways. 'Adam Dickinson is a wild doctor and Romantic scientist. With actual blood, sweat, and tears he has written an essential Anatomic poetics.' - Peter Gizzi 'Adam Dickinson doubles down on poetry's tendency towards interiority as he takes the concerns of the poem all the way down to the cellular level. 'Adam Dickinson is a wild doctor and a Romantic scientist. With actual blood, sweat, and tears he has written an essential Anatomic poetics. ' - Peter Gizzi 'Adam Dickinson doubles down on poetry's tendency toward interiority as he takes the concerns of the poem all the way down to the cellular level.

Anatomic, Adam Dickinson's fourth collection, plays throughout on the meanings of. corpus —fleshy body and textual body. How microbial species and chemical substances write our bodies is the impetus behind this project in which conceptual art, bioart, and ecopoetics meet. A paratextual endnote explains that Dickinson sent off his feces, urine. Anatomic is a collection of poems that investigates the biological impact of the environment. An interesting inversion of ecopoetry conventions, Adam Dickinson turns the microscope inwards to examine how the environment impacts the body by analyzing the plastics, metals, and pesticides that invade us. Adam Dickinson drew blood, collected urine, swabbed bacteria, and tested his feces to measure the precise chemical and microbial diversity of his body. To his horror, he discovered that our "petroculture" has infiltrated our very bodies with pesticides, flame retardants, andother substances.