Experimentation and the Lyric in Contemporary French Poetry

Jeff Barda is Junior Research Fellow in French at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, UK.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: ‘It was the war between the literalist and the lyric poets. Starwars. The grammatical-communist Robots against the real Humans’.- Chapter 2. Materials.- Chapter 3. Tools and Operations.- Chapter 4. Techniques of Assemblage.- Chapter 5. The Lyric Reading Performance.- Chapter 6. Conclusion: Towards and Ecology of Attention.

“Barda’s work testifies of an in-depth knowledge of a difficult and extremely innovative field, which he perfectly masters. … this book reframes our way of thinking the relationship between the lyric and the experiment. It can be used as a user’s manual to contemporary French poetry, which may seem very difficult to read without this kind of help (but it’s more than worth the effort).” (Jan Baetens, Leonardo, leonardo.info, August, 2021)