Article: Adieu, Arthur Rimbaud: a future for syntax in 'Le Parti pris des choses.'

"La revolution spirituelle doit se faire actuellement, dans une certaine

mesure, contre Rimbaud."

"Un bon texte nourrit aussi la generation contradictoire."

--Francis Ponge.(*)

Since its first publication in 1965, Pour un Malherbe has stood as Ponge's most explicit pronouncement of poetic affiliation, one in which the poetson wrests the poet-father from the hands of academia in an attempt to reintroduce us to what Ponge perceived as France's most important avant-garde poet.(1) Nonetheless, Pour un Malherbe is not the first work in which Ponge looks to important poet-predecessors to establish himself as son and heir to certain ...

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