Literature

A collective work examining fifty years of poetic activity by Bernard Heidsieck (1928-2014), a central figure in sound poetry and performance poetry, a major poet of the second half of the 20th century, along multiple axes.

Julien Blaine's new collection of poetic, visual and typographic experiments.

In a collection of interviews given over a period of almost twenty years, a poet seeks to find out a little more about what he makes by confronting his practice with other arts (plastic, sound, scenic).

The first volume of essays devoted to the work of Liliane Giraudon explores the diversity of her oeuvre, its interdisciplinarity but also its coherence, and enables us to understand what makes its strength and importance in the contemporary literary landscape.

Le Raï de l'homme approximatif, an invitation to an inner journey, an exploration of the meanders of the human soul, takes us on an existential odyssey where joys and sorrows mingle.

Vincent Broqua twists translation to vandalize literary classics in a sensual act, and expresses the wish for a gay ethic for our time. Queer beings are inventing alternative ways of holding their bodies together: Vincent Broqua expresses the wish for a gay ethic for our time.

Drawing on feminist criticism and gender studies, the Brazilian poet creates a counter-discourse in which poetic language becomes a place for questioning stereotypes and redefining feminine identities.

A long narrative poem punctuated by 12x2 drawings, a montage of statements and notations in which a poetess (fat and old) keeps a kind of diary in which the destruction of the private body is articulated to that of the social body.

Jean-Marie Gleize continues a poetic and narrative cycle initiated 35 years ago by composing variations on the inexhaustible and elusive theme of memory.

In this text-visual poem, Denise Le Dantec summons Rosa Luxemburg who, despite the violence, the multiple disappointments and the imprisonments, never ceased to believe in the necessity of emancipatory struggles.

The first book by Jacques-Henri Michot, which has remained unpublished, where we find all the writing techniques used in his subsequent works, with, as its main compass, writing as a weapon against barbarism.

Through the operative concept of literary and political extremism, this volume explores the links between the revolutionary aspirations of far-left socio-political movements and the quest for a new articulation between literature and reality in 1970s Italy, a dynamic exemplified by poet and novelist Nanni Balestrini (1935-2019).

A challenging study of contemporary theater in all its political dimensions.

A both poetic and political text which supports the French social movement that began on 31 March 2016.

A specialist in French philosophy and literature, and a key intermediary in Japan for the work of Deleuze and Guattari, Artaud, Beckett and Genet, Uno Kuniichi publishes in French his fundamental text on Antonin Artaud, a revised, recomposed and expanded version of his thesis, written under the direction of Gilles Deleuze in 1980.

A book of fiction that brings together two environmentalist literary “fantasies” by Matali Crasset, with line drawings.

A specialist in French philosophy and literature, and a key intermediary in Japan for the work of Deleuze and Guattari, Artaud, Beckett and Genet, Uno Kuniichi publishes in French his fundamental text on Antonin Artaud, a revised, recomposed and expanded version of his thesis, written under the direction of Gilles Deleuze in 1980.

The notion of primitivism rethought to highlight the role of the African referent in the development of the artistic and literary avant-garde in Europe.

In this tête-bêche book, Amandine André's Impossessions primitives, a text identifiable as poetic, meets philosopher Frédéric Neyrat's L'Anti-Terre, singularly opening up the field of possibilities and thought.

Julien Blaine's new collection of poetic, visual and typographic experiments.

This book takes the domestic dog as an affective standard, a practical horizon and an index of a moral economy specific to the capitalocene.

Inducing daydreams, walking under hypnosis, thwarting curfews.

Reissue of Charles Pennequin's first book, a lengthy text in which the author's writing is characterized by obsessive repetition, a breathless rhythm, a combination of introspective movement and prosaic elements, and a staging of proferation.

New visualities and visualizations of literature in the digital age: the possible contributions of design thinking to literary theory.

Written with a sensitive ear to the present, Matinées sans police reveals a relationship with the world in which the intimate and the extimate assert themselves in all their political dimensions.

This latest book—part of a ten-volume series that began with Léman in 1990—takes up and redistributes the elements of an investigation whose main material is autobiographical. The author restores an imaginary "childhood" that he writes about in a poetic attempt to understand it, and never ceases to "become".

Virginia Woolf and Valerie Solanas inspired a reverie. From there, a text unfolded in slippery formulas and furtive references that sometimes imploded into graphic and visual signs.

A poetic text on the influence of suffering and illness on the act of writing.

Reissue of a book of poetry from 1984—perhaps F.J. Ossang's most incandescent poetic period—that never saw the light of day.

A journal of critical and political poetry

A visceral questioning of what a book can or cannot be, and of the positions of author and reader.

A poetic investigation on desire, love and masculinity in the form of a constellation of texts, drawings and photographs.

A poem built like a long love song to the wounded Aleppo, to all the Aleppo of the world.

A series of samples taken every April 24, for eighty-seven years, from the most diverse sources (press articles, television broadcasts, book and film releases, speeches...): a mass of information that makes, from the smallest to the most imperious, the history of a country.

The sequel, posthumous and almost completed, of the poem-fleuve initiated in 2020 by Jean-Luc Parant, which questions our being in the world with a freedom both new and timeless.

A comprehensive overview of performance and action art in Greece, from its origins to the most contemporary practices.

A long narrative poem punctuated by 12x2 drawings, a montage of statements and notations in which a poetess (fat and old) keeps a kind of diary in which the destruction of the private body is articulated to that of the social body.

Undoubtedly one of the most important texts on the out of book poetry, both a documentary sum and a manifesto to underline the major role that the poetry and the poets have occupied and occupy in the whole of the transformations that have upset the the contemporary art field, considered by the amateurs and the researchers like a true bible.

An international essay (France, USA, Brazil, etc.) on digital poetry, from the first attempts to generate text on the computer to the most contemporary developments and the problems posed by artificial intelligence.

Jérôme Duwa proposes sixteen ways to embark in the company of Jean-François Bory's books.

The second part of José Vicente Anaya's poetic trilogy, deeply rooted in the infra-realist movement founded in Mexico City in the 1970s, combining verse and prose, is marked by a formal experimentation anchored in the poet's life and his wanderings from the north to the south of Mexico.

José Vicente Anaya closes his poetic trilogy with a rereading of Mexican political history through the memories of his own wanderings.

Rilke Shake—a humorous variation on the milkshake—summons part of the author's library (Mallarmé, Ezra Pond, Gertrude Stein, etc.) in poetic sketches that are in turn comical, burlesque, and absurd. At once trivial and erudite, this unbridled poetry explodes with images of parties—and the mornings after—, flashes of the street, and reminders of Brazil.

A poetic text fragmented into three parts each generating its own handicap in expressing the economy as alienation from life.