Summary
Bernard Noel: The rest of the way
When we think about the poetry of Bernard Noel, we put ourselves in the position of flight. Things swim in views. Perception dissolves in the transience of skin and body. The body is an experience of limits, it always plays the card of satisfaction / dissatisfaction, that is, the oxymoronic neighborhood of things with their negation. According to Bernard Noel, poetry is found in the careful anticipation of bodily nudity that is neither purely inside nor purely outside, the poem exposes and travels in what is traditionally forbidden to sight and touch. The body thus resists the crisis of meaning that we live in today. First and foremost a poet, Bernard Noel, born in 1930, is also a novelist, essayist and art critic. Extremely prolific, he is the author of more than seventy books. He is one of the most respected voices of contemporary French poetry.
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