Philippe Beck is a Poet as well as professor of philosophy at the University of Nantes. He has published over 15 volumes of poetry as well as a number of theoretical works including, most recently, Contre un Boileau: Un art poÉtique (Fayard, 2015). Beck was awarded the French Academy’s Grand Prix de PoÉsie (Grand Poetry Prize) for his body of works in 2015. Nicola Marae Allain is a faculty member in Arts & Cultural Studies at Empire State College, State University of New York.
