Fortino Sámano: The Overflowing of the Poem

Fortino Sámano: The Overflowing of the Poem
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Fortino SÃ¡mano (the overflowing of the poem), translated by Cynthia Hogue and Sylvain Gallais, with French on facing pages, is a collaborative work by the emerging French poet, Virginie Lalucq, and the distinguished philosopher, Jean-Luc Nancy. Lalucq wrote the serial poem, Fortino SÃ¡mano, after seeing an exhibit of photographs on the Mexican Revolution by Agustin Victor Casasola. Her series is a meditation on the single, extant photograph of SÃ¡mano, a Zapatista lieutenant and counterfeiter, which Casasola snapped as SÃ¡mano, smoking a last cigar, appeared to stare death nonchalantly in the face moments before his execution by firing squad (it was reported that he himself gave the order to fire). Little is known about SÃ¡mano, and Lalucqâ€™s poem makes no attempt to be biographical or historical. Rather, she treats the image itself, the fact that the camera caught the image of life just prior to its end. What, then, does the image represent? She asks. Nancyâ€™s section, Les dÃ©bordements du poÃ¨me (The overflowing of the poem), is a series of poetic commentaries on each of the poems in Lalucqâ€™s series. It is a philosophical contemplation of the specific poem, Fortino SÃ¡mano, and also, a poetic investigation of the lyric genre, which works hand-in-hand with Lalucqâ€™s poems. Fortino SÃ¡mano is an exciting poetic dialogue, and a significant work in poetics, which Hogue and Gallais have brought into English.
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EANs 9781890650674
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Country	USA
Brand	Omnidawn
Manufacturer	Omnidawn
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	RKC2009302480
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781890650674
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Fortino Sámano: The Overflowing of the Poem

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