The Play of Light, livre ebook

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
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Varieties of Light
1. "Thy blackness is a spark"
2. "Birth was the death of him"
3. Palindromes
4. Beware of Enigmas
5. Is This a Dream?
6. Interlude: All and Nothing
7. Fin' Amors
8. Diaphanous
9. Entre Deux
Notes
Bibliography
Index