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 About author(s): Ann Smock is Professor Emerita of French at the University California, Berkeley.
She is the author of What Is There to Say? and Double Dealing .
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State University Of New York Press The play of light, paperback/ann smock
