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The Table (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781939663245)
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xThe final chapter in Francis Ponge's interrogation of unassuming objects
Written from 1967 to 1973 over a series of early mornings in seclusion in his country home, The Table offers a final chapter in Francis Ponge's interrogation of the unassuming objects in his life: in this case, the table upon which he wrote. In his effort to get at the presence lying beneath his elbow, Ponge charts out a space of silent consolation that lies beyond (and challenges) scientific objectivity and poetic transport. This is one of Ponge's most personal, overlooked, and--because it was the project he was working on when he died--his least processed works. It reveals the personal struggle Ponge engaged in throughout all of his writing, a hesitant uncertainty he usually pared away from his published texts that is at touching opposition to the manufactured, "durable mother" of the table on and of which he here writes.Author: Francis Ponge
ISBN-10: 1939663245
ISBN-13: 9781939663245
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Language: English
Published: 05/23/2017
Pages: 104
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 6.90h x 4.40w x 0.50d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2017
By Francis Ponge
xFrancis Ponge (1899-1988) was both a giant of French 20th-century poetry and one of its humblest practitioners. The poet of "things," he practiced a poetic contemplation--usually in the form of his own unique brand of hesitant, searching prose poem--of the everyday objects that share our existence. He did not so much reinvent the shell, cigarette, soap, pebble, sun, oyster or asparagus, as forge and share with them a new language.
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