| dc.description | What sense might one give to the poetic act today? The present thesis will seek to obtain a number of individual responses to this question, and, in so doing, go beyond the compelling poetry of largely established French poets such as Andre Du Bouchet, Denis Roche, Yves Bonnefoy and Michel Deguy in order to consider the voices of younger poets who, though not yet known to all, are developing urgent, flourishing works: Esther Tellermann, Jean-Claude Pinson, Yves Leclair, Pascal Commere, and Marie-Claire Bancquart. It will perhaps not be until tomorrow that we fully realize the importance of these very diverse poets, as most of them have not yet received the critical attention that their work so richly deserves. But by dedicating an entire chapter to one of the central aims that focuses the poetry of each these authors, I will detail some very personal and current responses to the above question, responses that have not yet been sufficiently considered from a critical point of view. The conclusion will situate the efforts of these poets vis-a-vis some of those that precede or accompany them and this contextualisation will enable us to appreciate that the five poetic voices contemplated here seem very loosely representative of a new trend whereby poetry would appear to be less the creation of pure, textual becoming or the quest for a poetic gesture endowed with negative truth than a somewhat riskier attempt on the part of the poet to mediate his existence more actively, despite the absence of any guiding certainties. The present thesis is one of the rare studies of very recent poetry where a global consideration of new directions is tied to in-depth analysis of diversely individual works. | en_US |
