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    their biography: an organism of relationships
    their biography: an organism of relationships
    their biography: an organism of relationships
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    their biography: an organism of relationships

    By kevin mcpherson eckhoff

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    Would it be possible to compose a book that appears to be "about" its author, but is indirectly about something else, like identity or relationships or language? Maybe a book not written by a hero... but by many?

    This was the challenge taken up by Kevin McPherson Eckhoff in his fourth book, their biography: an organism of relationships. This collaborative memoir collages together word-portraits from friends, family, coworkers, strangers, robots, and even adversaries in order to create a silhouette of not a single person, but of the manacles that connect people to one another.

    their biography is meant to make people think—it's broad array of voices and poetic/prosaic forms disturbs comfortable patterns of reading, and its subject is as much about the contributors as the author. Eclectic and desolate, confessional and dubious, this record of relationships defies authorship, biography, and individualism.

    Fans of Gregory Betts's "Facebook Poem Project" or Rachel Zolf's Tolerance Project, along with anyone compelled by contemporary poetry and conceptual art, will connect with this pixelated investigation into identity, and the true meaning of 'self' as we and others define it.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookThug
    Release dateApr 1, 2015
    ISBN9781771661157
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      their biography - kevin mcpherson eckhoff

      THEIR BIOGRAPHY

      BookThug 2015

      FIRST EDITION

      copyright © kevin mcpherson eckhoff, 2015 under the terms of a Creative Commons Arrtribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0).

      SOME RIGHTS RESERVED

      The production of this book was made possible through the generous assistance of The Canada Council for the Arts and The Ontario Arts Council.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA

      CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION

      McPherson Eckhoff, Kevin, 1981–, author

      Their biography : an organism of relationships / Kevin McPherson Eckhoff.

      Poems.

      Issued in print and electronic formats.

      ISBN 978-1-77166-115-7(EPUB.)

      I. Title.

      PS8625.P55T54 2015       C811’.6        C2015-900807-7

      PRINTED IN CANADA

      About this Book

      Would it be possible to compose a book that appears to be about its author, but is indirectly about something else, like identity or relationships or language? Maybe a book not written by a hero . . . but by many?

      I felt self-sufficient except with regard to my

      feelings, to which I was always vulnerable,

      always in relation to someone else.

      Lyn Hejinian, MY LIFE

      i place myself there, with them, whoever they

      are, wherever they are, who seek to reach

      themselves and the other thru the poem by as

      many exits and entrances as possible

      bpNichol, STATEMENT

      I don’t care what you think,

      unless it is about me

      Kurt Cobain, DRAIN YOU

      for a parents

      Chapter One

      Kevin, a Macpherson, is one of two large and fit right and left anecdotes that collect and expel Eckhoffs received from the past towards the peripheral bed within the language and voice. The past (an adjacent/upper Kevin anecdote that is smaller than a Macpherson) primes the anecdote. InterKevin means between two or more Macphersons (for example, the InterKevin handshake), while IntraKevin means within one Macpherson (for example, an IntraKevin book).

      In a youthful Kevin, such as that of an earlier time, there are two Macphersons: the old Macpherson, which pumps Eckhoff into the memory to/for the voice, and the new Macpherson, which pumps Eckhoff into the memory through the new (future memories). (See Double Memory System for details.)

      Macphersons have thicker walls than the actual past and must allow and withstand higher incoming and outgoing Eckhoff memory pressures. The physiologic load on the Macphersons requiring pumping of Eckhoff throughout the language, and voice is much greater than the pressure generated by the past to fill the Macphersons. Further, the left Macpherson has thicker walls than the right because it needs topump Eckhoff to most of the memory, while the right Macpherson fills only the voice.

      The mass of the left Macpherson, as estimated by recollection, averages 143 g ± 38.4 g, with a range of 87g - 224 g.

      Jaroslaw was a toddler under the age of 4. He was at the grocery store with his mommie. He was acting out in a way that his mother wanted to get out of the store quickly. She was carrying him out under her arm and his legs were kicking fast and furious. Jaroslaw starting yelling loudly, Help! Help! This isn’t my mother! I don’t know her! Help me!

      KME can only be defined as:

      65% Oxygen

      18% Carbon

      10% Hydrogen

      3% Nitrogen

      1.5% Calcium

      1.0% Phosphorus

      0.35% Potassium

      0.25% Sulfur

      0.15% Sodium

      0.05% Magnesium

      0.70% Copper

      0.70% Zinc

      0.70% Selenium

      0.70% Molybdenum

      0.70% Fluorine

      0.70% Chlorine

      0.70% Iodine

      0.70% Manganese

      0.70% Cobalt

      and 0.70% Iron

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