Recumbents
Hailed as one of France's most influential living poets, Michel Deguy has remained largely inaccessible to English-language readers. Recumbents is the first English translation of the most critically-acclaimed volume of this poet's work. The word recumbents refers to funereal sculptures (gisants), reclining lovers, and the literal imprint of those and other figures on the page. The collection includes a poem for the dead, "Procession," written by Deguy in the wake of his father's suicide, and...
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A widely acclaimed collection by one of France's leading poets and thinkers. Bilingual—first English translation.
The minuscule and quasi subliminal loss of time, which is a loss of time as where the sink in the stream is a spring, where time gets lost is a delight--when I rise from a chair, called by the doorbell, and during this lapse--twenty, forty seconds?--on command, delivered from the task of describing, from the constraint of inventing a laborious ford, but devoted to nothing the while, I think only of opening...\ "Where Time Gets Lost"
Sibyllaries2Object complements (December)12Use covered yard (March)14Cardiogram (May)16To put back into prose (July)18Now you shall see ...20Ingredients24Perpetual motion26The narrations28Recumbents30Recumbents32The narration34Manufacture36Aphrodite colleague38A question for the poem40Dedication42The letters44Recumbents46An incidental tale50May day56Procession58Civil list64Space66Dedication74Recumbents76Composure78Tale80Edge82Recumbents84Didactics86Edges88Form90OE92Where time gets lost94Recumbents96Truths98Dialogues100Catachreses102Translation104At sunrise I arose ...106On the secret108Truths110Recumbents112Devotion114Erasure118Withdrawal120Didactics122Alarm124Our dwelling128Measures for measure130Nude134Everything washes away ...140The cella was empty142Threshold pleasures146That which assembles prepares resemblance148Dovetail150Compareason152Communing character154The hop-scotch principle156To re-inter-est ...158To be free ...160An die musik164Rhetoric166Combat170Rhetoric again172The spirit of poetry174Likenings178Memorandum182How to name191
