part 4. 1946–1966: the death of andré breton, the beginning of l’éphémère
published his Actes. Although the poet explores locations as diverse as his
styles of writing, his sense of place is unremittingly strong, whether he is
writing about Brittany or Baltimore. This period of French poetry demon-
strates an extraordinary geographical scope: from Martinique, Édouard
Glissant’s Sel noir; from Haiti, René Depestre’s Un arc-en-ciel pour l’Occi-
dent chrétien; from Tunisia, Abdelwahab Meddeb’s Tombeau d’Ibn Arabi;
from Yugoslavia and Corsica, Jacques Garelli’s Prendre appui; from Tran-
sylvania and Tunisia, Lorand Gaspar’s Sol absolu; from Quebec, Gaston
Miron’s L’Homme rapaillé; from Lebanon, Salah Stétié’s Fièvre et guérison
de l’icône; from Belgium, Claire Lejeune’s ELLE; from Switzerland, Phi-
lippe Jaccottet’s Airs. Largesse indeed.
Notes- See Warren Motte, ed., OULIPO: A Primer of Potential Literature (Normal, Ill.:
Dalkey Archives, 1988). - Francis Ponge, Le Parti pris des choses (Taking the Side of Things) (Paris: Gallimard,
1942). - For Objectivism, see The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, ed. Alex
Preminger and T. V. F. Brogan (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993), pp. 848–849.
On James Schuyler and the New York School, see the Encyclopedia of American Poetry, ed.
Erich Haralson (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001), pp. 506–507, 650–652.