The Play of Light
Author | : Ann Smock |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2021-02-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781438481517 |
ISBN-13 | : 1438481519 |
Rating | : 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Drawing from five contemporary French poets—Jacques Roubaud, Emmanuel Hocquard, Danielle Collobert, Anne Portugal, and Jacques Jouet—Ann Smock juxtaposes them and provides a milieu suitable for philosophical reflection on identity, on not-being and being, on communication, and on secrets. Smock also includes thinkers such as Ludwig Wittgenstein and Giorgio Agamben, who contribute to the conversation, as do Jean-Luc Nancy and Maurice Blanchot. Though the poems considered here are often thought difficult, Smock maintains a light touch throughout. She writes in an accessible, even pleasurable style while contributing to the scholarly study of literature at the border shared by poetry and philosophy