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One of the most widely celebrated artists of his generation, Ed Atkins makes videos, draws, and writes, developing a complex and deeply figured discourse around definition, wherein the impossibilities for sufficient representations of the physical, specifically corporeal, world from computer generated imagery to bathetic poetry are hysterically rehearsed.A Primer for Cadavers, a startlingly original first collection, brings together a selection of his texts from 2010 to 2016. Part prose-poetry, part theatrical direction, part script-work, part dream-work, writes Joe Luna in his afterword, Atkins texts present something as fantastic and commonplace as the record of a creation, the diary of a writer glued to the screen of their own production, an elegiac, erotic Frankenstein for the twenty-first century.