The Knowledge

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Fifteen Prose Collages

DiJ.L. Baxat

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'The Knowledge' consists of 15 interlinked prose collages, originally commissioned for a performance piece mounted in Clermont-Ferrand in 1998. The work was later adapted & recorded for the ‘Atelier de Création Radiophonique’, Radio France Culture (broadcast April 2004). This edition is a reissue of the original chapbook published by Rakehelly Press in 2006.

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Data di pubblicazione: Nov 23, 2024
Lingua: English
ISBN: 9781304063786
Categoria: Poesia
Copyright: Tutti i diritti riservati - Licenza di copyright standard
Collaboratori: Di (autore): J.L. Baxat

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Pagine: 59
Tipo di rilegatura: Libro a copertina morbida Libro a copertina morbida
Colore del contenuto: Bianco e nero
Dimensioni: Novella (127 x 203 mm)

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A proposito di J.L. Baxat

J.L. Baxat (1969–2017) moved through European literary and theatre life like a signal briefly caught and then lost again. From the mid-1990s onward he wrote across forms—poetry, performance, radio, prose—drawing loosely together what later came to be described as European prose collage: writing made from fragments, overheard detail, and the quiet pressure of place. Among the central works is ‘The Hotel Letters’, composed between 1998 and 2008 on whatever paper happened to be at hand—hotel stationery, headed notepaper, the ephemera of rooms already being vacated. Part poetry, part micro-fiction, the book circles ideas of movement, memory, and the strangeness of temporary lives. A new paperback edition appeared in August 2024. Another key work, ‘The Knowledge: Fifteen Prose Collages’, began life as a performance in Clermont-Ferrand in 1998, before being re-imagined for Radio France Culture in 2004. The original 2006 chapbook was reissued in late 2024. Baxat’s method was one of montage rather than argument. He assembled observations, textures, and sensory flashes into loose constellations, trusting adjacency over explanation. Based mainly between Clermont-Ferrand and Dublin, he treated the ordinary as a working surface: minibar lists, notepads, inventories. These everyday objects became quiet instruments for thinking about impermanence—about how writing, like travel, is often done in borrowed spaces, against the clock, with nothing guaranteed except departure.

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