In Kooperation mit der Edition Hansjörg Mayer. In englischer Sprache. "Particle/Word Theory" is Jimmie Durham's third poetry book after "Columbus Day" (Albuquerque 1983) and "Poems That Do Not Go Together" (Berlin, London 2012). The book contains thirty-eight poems, written between 2014 and 2019 and twelve drawings. Durham's sculptures as well as his texts are made out of fragments, they are a lifelong statement against monumentality. Durham observes nature, thinks about the try to categorize and name nature and he reflects about unspectacular, daily behaviour of animals and humans - himself included. In his new poetry book he cites also scientific studies, articles about brain and pain research - all this stands next to his own pain experience. It underlines a provocative sentence he wrote in 1998: "Art and science are the same thing".