Experimentation and the Lyric in Contemporary French Poetry

Introduction.- Part 1 A Poetic Toolbox.- Chapter 1 Materials.- Chapter 2 Tools and Operations.- Part 2 Language Outside its Customary Furrows.- Chapter 3 Techniques of Assemblage: Language Outside its Customary Furrows.- Part 3 'Un lyrisme des machines'.- Chapter 4 Cadiot: The Theatre of Thought.- Chapter 5 Alferi: Inscapes and Nexus of Chance Meetings.- Chapter 6 Portugal: Logic of Non-sense.- Chapter 7 Roche: Discontinuous Vision of Reality.- Chapter 8 Hocquard: Poetics of Degrammaticalisation.- Chapter 9 Leibovici: Drawing Things Together.- Chapter 10 Conclusion: Towards an Ecology of Attention.

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.