Inspired by T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, Karl Holmqvist uses a writing method mainly based on quotes, which now includes a diverse range of sources, from beat and concrete poetry, to cut-up lines from films and popular songs – often quoted in their entirety. When performed live as spoken word readings by the artist, the use of reversals, word games, and not least endless repetition, reveals a liberating intent – for both writer and listener, and also for language itself, forcing an escape from the demands of linearity and constraining grammatical correctness thats usually imposed on it.

What's My Name? contains a selection of work from the last twenty years amounting to sixty-six poems, some short artist’s texts and a few decorative doodles.

Published by Book Works and Hollybush Gardens.
A special edition of What's My Name? is also available.

イギリスの詩人・T.S.エリオットの代表作「荒野」に着想を得て、本書の著者であるKarl Holmqvistは主に引用を使った記述方法を使っている。引用の元となっているのは、ビートニクやコンクレートポエムから、映画やポピュラー音楽のカットアップまでさまざまで、しばしば原文のまますべてを引用していることもある。本書は過去20年の間に作られた60作品のうち6作品と、その他作家によるテキストなどを収録。
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