Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: In 2015, he received the Grand Prix de poésie from the Académie française for his body of work.Since Garde-manche hypocrite (1996), he has published over twenty poetry collections, the most recent of which are Ryrkaïpii (2023a) and Abstraite et plaisantine (2025a).His work creates spaces of encounter both with its own formal possibilities and with the other arts.If his poetry is concerned with the search for what he calls a 'dry lyricism' ('lyrisme sec'), it is always because it remains occupied by, and with, the question of what it can do: what it can do when something has gone wrong, and in the face of catastrophe; what it can do before the 'community in pain' ('communauté en peine'; see Beck 2025b) and for this community.At stake here are the roles of the poem and of the poet in the world.Through an ensemble of moves, displacements,
Source: CounterText
Authors: Philippe Beck, Elodie Laügt, Mark Robson
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4411034163