Name: On the Motion and Immobility of Douve =: Du Mouvement et de L'immobilité de Douve (Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets) (in English)
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Author: Yves Bonnefoy
ISBN: 9781852241322

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Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Author

Yves Bonnefoy

Synopsis "On the Motion and Immobility of Douve =: Du Mouvement et de L'immobilité de Douve (Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets) (in English)"

Ostensibly, the volume is about a female lover, Douve. Douve, though, is the French word for a moat, that uncrossable body which separates us from safety and from danger. With this undercurrent at work we read the poems as if they are about the divide between us and death as much as they are about the divide between us and the untouchable reality of text. This is dangerous writing, fulfilling Derrida's "fatal necessity" by making us substitute the textual sign for reality.