Jacques Lovichi. Les derniers retranchements: Poemes 1965-1995.(Book Review)(Brief Article)

From: World Literature Today | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Alain Borer, preface, Paris. Le Cherche Midi. 2002. 119 pages. 12 [euro]. ISBN 2-86274-957-5

ALTHOUGH IT IS THE PRESENT TENSE that predominates in Jacques Lovichi's Les derniers retranchements (chosen from some thirty years of production, 1965-1995), his poetry moves in a timeless realm of myth suggested by the long nominal chains and the frequent infinitives (he titles one poem "Infini[tifs]s presents") and by the many past and present participles doing dual duty as adjectives and verb forms cut off (retranchees) from temporal signification.

Lovichi cites only one ...

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