“Vuelvo y te desconozco”: vocabulario místico y vuelcos espirituales en Báculo de Babel de Blanca Andreu by Lucía Méndez Soria

“…This article analyses the second collection of poems by Blanca Andreu (A Coruña, 1959), a series of apocalyptic visions that mark a spiritual journey and a meditation on the transformative and revealing power of poetry as on the prevalence of a sacred nature of language. …”
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“Orpheus’ Sermon”: Making a Case for an Antiquer Dickinson by Eric Athenot

“…All of which questions find a resolution of sort in her appropriation of the Orphic voice in her later poems.…”
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Teaching E. E. Cummings’ No Thanks by Isabelle Alfandary

“…The reading of a modernist book of poems such as No Thanks (1935) by E. E. Cummings is affected and impacted by what may be regarded as minor changes in the book presentation, such as the presence or absence of an introduction to the collection, as well as typographical modifications. …”
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La fin de vers, laboratoire de l’œuvre poétique de l’artiste Josef Albers by Vincent Broqua

“…Through textual analyses, archival material, and a study of his learning of English, this paper explores the poeticity of his writings (poems, statements, treatises on color). In his extended poetry, Albers constructed a new type of line between verse and prose to allow for an experience of the physicality of the text. …”
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A razão ética e poética nos poemas de Ana Martins Marques by Anélia Montechiari Pietrani

“…In the work of the young poet Ana Martins Marques, author ofA vida submarinaand Da arte dasarmadilhas, the feminine sensibility and aesthetic discipline are significant marks. Reading her poems, especially her metapoems, and thearchitecture of her texts make us situate the new Brazilian poetry at the presentof the twenty-first century, to reflect on the role, value and place of poetry incontemporary times, as power and search of meanings at which the ethical andthe poetic reason converge.…”
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The Turki-Language Diary of Insha Allah Khan Insha as a Literary Monument by Iskander R.Saitbattalov

“…Although the manuscript primarily focuses on everyday life and describes conversations with various people, it does contain fragments of poems once heard by the author and those composed by him. …”
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Wallace Stevens : d’une version officieuse de la philosophie by Axel Nesme

“…After exploring the connection between Heideggerian ontology and Stevens’ poetry “in times of need”, this paper examines the originating function of Stevens’ poems in light of Agamben’s theorization of deixis and voice, and of the specific role assigned to the syllable. …”
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A “experiência irrespirável”: memória e esquecimento em Ricardo Domeneck by Elaine Cristina Cintra

“…Thus, this paper analy- ses a series of three poems in which some representative elements of this author’s poetry emerge in the discussion of the role of the memory in contemporaneity.…”
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Vers l’image aveugle : George Oppen et l’usage de la lumière by Xavier Kalck

“…This article means to discuss the question of light in George Oppen’s poetry, quite independently of the images built within the poems. It is a paradoxical endeavour, and should only be seen as an exercise in approaching such an otherwise concrete poetry, known for its emphasis on the visible world. …”
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A Literary Interpretation of Blood Symbolism in Ifá Divination Poetry by Oluwabunmi Tope Bernard

“…Using Ricoeur’s hermeneutics theory of interpretation, the findings show that the selected Ifá divination poems present the symbolic interpretations of blood in Ifá corpus as it is entrenched in the Yorùbá psychology, sexuality, religiosity, worldview, identity and kinship. …”
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EXPRESSIONIST ECHOES IN “3 AUTUMN” SONGS BY DAN VOICULESCU - STRUCTURE, STYLE, LANGUAGE by Şerban MARCU

“…The three lieder are based on poems Autumn song and Song by Emil Isac and Autumn by Nicolae Labis. …”
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Le creux ou la ville en procès chez Rosmarie Waldrop by Vincent Broqua

“…It is not so much a theme as one of the elements of her poetry of emptiness. Her poems avoid or empty the city, thereby inventing ways to think the city differently. …”
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Dépendance et attraction dans la poésie de Màiri MacPherson by Jean Berton

“…Màiri MacPherson’s poetry combines her expression of a political rebellion with a powerful feeling of belonging. Her poems were first of all lyrics for popular songs. …”
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Walt Whitman, passant moderne by Eric Athenot

“…Starting from an analysis of Whitman’s departure from the Romantic poets’ approach to the urban environment it charts the poems’ progress through various cities and examines the poet’s susceptibility to the language of the working men of Manhattan as the catalyst of his poetic revolution. …”
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What Place Takes Place in Jordan Abel’s The Place of Scraps ? by Claire Omhovère

“…Jordan Abel’s The Place of Scraps (2013) addresses the interrogations faced by those who grew up deprived of the language, beliefs and memories of their ancestors as a result of the cultural genocide perpetrated against the Indigenous peoples of North America to whom his first collection of poems is dedicated. Because Abel’s primary material comprises texts and images that have been widely circulated as first-hand knowledge about the Pacific Northwest, his compositions expose the discursive layers that inform Euro-Canadian representations of aboriginal places, particularly the enduring fascination for the totem pole’s interlacing of lineage, spirituality and territory in the place it indicates.…”
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The Feeling of Thought: T.S. Eliot’s Programmatic Poetry. by Amélie Ducroux

“…I will try to confront some of the theoretical assertions present in his essays and lectures with his aesthetic “theory” as it incarnates itself, or as it is “sung” in some of his poems, and attempt to show what theory can gain from this peculiar mode of discourse that only poetic writing can generate.…”
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Folquet de Marseille ou Foulques de Toulouse ? La mémoire d’un troubadour devenu évêque à travers ses représentations by Léa David

“…Six in number, they feature the character and mark the beginning of the section dedicated to his poems. Nearly fifty years after his death, they show the central importance of this character, whose memory is blurred by his atypical path, which led him in turn to be a troubadour, a monk, and a bishop.…”
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“Une femme passa” : les passantes de L’Éducation sentimentale by Jeanne Bem

“…Un rapprochement avec le poème de Baudelaire « À une passante » permet une relecture originale du personnage de Mme Arnoux.…”
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Écrire « au nom de l’Abeille, du Papillon et de la Brise » : figures animalières et paysagères dans les écrits d’Emily Dickinson. by Estève Marie

“…The article studies how animal figures are introduced in a few early poems and in the beginning of the first fascicle to encompass their relating to XIXth context and to the poetic project to write from within the tradition of lyricism while transforming traditional animal tropes, thanks to the circulation of voices and the passing of the poetic wording (and worlding) to relaying animal and other landscape figures.…”
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Mimesis de la douleur chez George Oppen et J. H. Prynne by Xavier Kalck

“…The question matters all the more as the poems do not partake of collage as the belated sign of modernist claims. …”
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