riots and/or poetics [5/2024]

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Attaques #5 Pierre Alferi, Leslie Kaplan, Nathalie Quintane, etc. |  Contre la littérature politque Jean-Marie Gleize | Je deviens. Séances Hélène Giannecchini | Alix Cléo Roubaud: a portrait in fragments Sean Bonney | from the book of living or dying Sean Bonney | Astrophil and Stella Catherine Brun, Guillaume Fau, Donatien Grau | Pierre Guyotat et l’Algérie Bernard Heidsieck | Poésie action – Variations sur Bernard Heidsieck Jacques-Henri Michot | Au jour dit. Le 24 avril en France (1935-2022) Antonin Artaud | The New Revelations of Being & Other Mystical writings Marguerite Duras | My Cinema Anne-Marie Albiach / Louis…

Abigail Lang | The Ongoing French Reception of the Objectivists

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  The ties between French and American poetry are ancient and profound. In the introduction to his 1984 The Random House Book of XXth Century French Poetry, Paul Auster reminds his anglophone reader of the perennial contribution of the French language in general and French literature and poetry in particular to its British and later American counterparts, going back to John Gower and Chaucer. Focusing on the modern period, he claims that “American poetry of the past hundred years would be inconceivable without the French.” From the time of Baudelaire “modern British and American poets have continued to look to France…