Abstract:
This collection of poetry conceives of a biographer as an archiver or curator of the world
around them. One who invests themselves in collecting, more often than not, humorous
and tragic episodes, and characters. The biographer isn’t necessarily onsite, or hands-on,
but often collecting through imaginative contexts, thus biographical sketching from afar.
This collection accumulates the lives of real and not so real figures, obituaries,
composers, mini-biographies, sinners, all in the name of the speaker’s obsession and hope
to better cope and better understand the world around him. The speaker collects the lives
and identities of others in order to craft his own identity, that of the biographer. “The
biographer,” then, also shows itself as being a reflective and projective autobiography.
