B. Bonhomme, Mémoire et chemins vers le monde (reissue) - Poetry and Poetics

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B. Bonhomme, Mémoire et chemins vers le monde (reissue)
Poetry and Poetics

Béatrice Bonhomme, Mémoire et chemins vers le monde. Philippe Jaccottet, Yves Bonnefoy, Salah Stétié, Bernard Vargaftig, André du Bouchet, Antoine Emaz, Jean-Claude Renard, Jacques Réda, Jude Stéfan, James Sacré, Bernard Noël, Nice: Melis éditions, coll. "Littératures", 2009, 212 p.

  • ISBN: 978-2-35210-013-3
  • Price: €21
  • Published on July 10, 2008

Contents:

Foreword
Philippe Jaccottet or the Memory of Oblivion
Between Notes, Observations, and Other Inscriptions: The Prose of Philippe Jaccottet or the Journal of a Writing
Gérard de Nerval and Yves Bonnefoy: A Poetics of Simplicity
The Gesture of an Offering: An Encounter Between Yves Bonnefoy and the Painter Nasser Assar
A Poetry of Withdrawal and Angularity, Between Exile and Community, Through the Works of Salah Stétié, Bernard Vargaftig, and André du Bouchet
Salah Stétié, Reader of Rimbaud
Mystic Desert in the Works of Pierre Jean Jouve and Salah Stétié
Salah Stétié, Lecture d'une femme
Antoine Emaz, Reader of Verlaine
Living Memory: Nature, Sensuality, and the Alchemy of Writing in Jean-Claude Renard's Le Temps de la Transmutation
Jacques Réda, City Traveler: A Reading of La Liberté des rues
Jude Stéfan or the Invocation to the Fates
James Sacré or Portmanteau Words as a Childhood Treasure
An Experience of the Desert in the Work of James Sacré
Eight Variations on the Work of Bernard Noël

The writers studied in this collection include Philippe Jaccottet, Yves Bonnefoy, and André du Bouchet. The volume's chapters focus on themes of memory, oblivion, and simplicity in modern French poetry. The text covers topics ranging from the prose of Jaccottet to the poetry of withdrawal and angularity in the works of Du Bouchet and Salah Stétié.

The essays also examine dialogues between these poets and other writers or artists. The text discusses connections to predecessors such as Gérard de Nerval, Arthur Rimbaud, and Paul Verlaine, as well as Yves Bonnefoy's encounter with the painter Nasser Assar. These studies address themes of urban wandering, childhood memory, and the desert. Readers interested in the evolution of contemporary Francophone poetry and its dialogue with the past may find it relevant.