On certain serialities in contemporary French poetry

Jacques Ancet, Alain Suied, Christophe Tarkos

Abstract

The article proposes a reflection about French contemporary poetry. After showing how Symbolism introduced a formal transgenericity that took poetry to the prose, he identifies some typologies of seriality belonging to the text’s titles or to the metrical and rhetorical organization of the language. The study finds in the work of three authors of the Second half of the 20^th century some of the most typical forms of seriality. In Jacques Ancet’s poems, we can see an isostrophical and an isometrical seriality; in Alain Suied’s texts, a poematical seriality based on the anaphor; in Christophe Tarkos’ work a calligrammatical seriality using words and drawings in a geometrical way. But for some stylistic differences, these three poetics have a point of contact in spatial and temporal dimension which acts as a unifying element of the poetical voice.