Finalist for the 2011 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry

Her painful legs refused to emerge. It was a question of a particular movement. A passage from analyses to terrifying hallucination. The pressure oozing out of her. Still nursing she held up the head. Her own singular sensation of pain. Ferociously archival proof of an event that left no other material.

Fieldnotes, a forensic charts one forensic anthropologist’s series of descents in the first decade of the new millennium — a decade when forensic discourses and experts became ubiquitous in popular culture and on the daily news. But the edgy, passionate and erudite writer of these fieldnotes is no Temperance Brennan or Kathy Reichs. Part parody of popular discourses on the forensic anthropologist, part exegesis of the fieldnote genre, and part response to the natural and human catastrophes that unfolded during the writing of this book, Eichhorn’s second collection continues to explore the poetics and affective dimensions of knowledge making at the edges of poetry and fiction.

Kate Eichhorn is the author of Fond (2008), a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award. She is also co-editor of Prismatic Publics: Innovative Canadian Women’s Poetry and Poetics (2009) and Belladonna Elders Series, Vol. 6 (2009). Her poetry, prose and criticism are part of a serial investigation of historiography, ethnography and poetics. She teaches writing and cultural theory at The New School in New York City.

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• Winner, Gerald Lampert Award

“Full of heightened ideas and lively associations, Fond is deeply rooted and impeccably accomplished.”— Gerald Lampert Award Jury