On the Motion and Immobility of Douve (Bloodaxe contemporary French poets)

by Galway Kinnell (Translator), Galway Kinnell (Translator), Yves Bonnefoy (Author), Timothy Mathews (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  1992

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  Ostensibly, the volume is about a female lover, Douve. Douve, though, is the French word for a moat, that uncrossable body which separates us from safety and from danger. With this undercurrent at work we read the poems as if they are about the divide between us and death as much as they are about the divide between us and the untouchable reality of text. This is dangerous writing, fulfilling Derrida's fatal necessity by making us substitute the textual sign for reality.