Illustrating the Machine That Makes the World: From J. G. Heck's 1851 Pictorial Archive of Nature and Science

by Joshua Poteat

In this book-length series, poems with titles such as "Illustrating the theory of interference" and "Illustrating the construction of railroads" are paired with nineteenth-century engravings depicting phenomena from geology to astronomy to mechanics. Yet the poems relate to the images in an oblique rather than a direct way. Poteat uses this framework to construct a mysterious and engaging book that inhabits many worlds at once, bridging the real...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820334146
• ISBN13: 9780820334141
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"