Form and Love in the Poetry of Jacques Roubaud

Thea Petrou

ISBN 10: 1800792654 / ISBN 13: 9781800792654

Published by Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, GB, 2024

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Can love poetry be the site of a creative partnership? When a poem is written by the male poet for the woman he loves, both addressed to her and taking her as its object, how does - how can - she interact with it?This book represents a foray into the love poetry of Jacques Roubaud, tracing a lifetime of writing from the ardour of first love to the pain of grief and loss. The author brings Roubaud's poetry into proximity with evolving views on the sexual relation from Freud, Lacan and Irigaray in readings that consider the ties between poet and lover, poet and reader. At the centre of it all is the poet's engagement with form: the free verse style of the Surrealists that was popular in his youth, the form-orientated writing he turns to as a response to his self-doubt as a writer, and the collapse of metre and rhythm when he mourns the death of his wife. Is form a device for the confinement of the feminine presence in his poems, or does Roubaud construct spaces in his poetry for his lover - his other - to be?

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Form and Love in the Poetry of Jacques Roubaud
• Publisher: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, GB
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1800792654
• ISBN 13: 9781800792654
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 450 grams

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Synopsis

Can love poetry be the site of a creative partnership? This book represents a foray into the love poetry of Jacques Roubaud, tracing a lifetime of writing from the ardour of first love to the pain of grief and loss. Roubaud’s poetry is brought into proximity with views from Freud, Lacan and Irigaray in original readings of his work.

About the Author

Thea Petrou is a translator and independent researcher based in London. She graduated with a PhD in modern and contemporary French poetry from University College London. She has published on sonnets, tridents and joséphines and on the interactions of these poetic forms with mathematics, space and the visual arts. She is currently working on a creative critical project inspired by her PhD research and this monograph.