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His long series of poetic meditations on Mount Juliau in the Ard\u00e8che region of south-central France, with diverging considerations of language, philosophy, politics and religion, is a postmodern tour de force.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one poem from the book:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>14.04.13<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cThe thickness in color is, perhaps, what comes closest to a representation of the voice.\u201d*<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Impastos, tones, layers of painters who never leave off: Turrel, Rothko, Poliakoff, Scully&#8230; are the abyss of skins and their folds. The breaching of all our possible eyes, including our words, our voices\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Yellow: the deepest tessitura.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">I\u2019m inside color as in untranslatable eyes, edgeless, incessant, penetrating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Grassy puddle, pink-breast, dark tongue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Sometimes rambling in the landscape opens a door to color. Other times a sentence seems to do it, but finally no, all it creates is a doorstep, something like the wave\u2019s sliding surf, June of broom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cThe end of writing is literature\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">So the poem begins when literature stops, when one ceases writing, enters arrested writing.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h6 class=\"p1\">*Mathieu B\u00e9n\u00e9zet: <i>Oeuvre 1968-2010<\/i>, Flammarion, 2012<\/h6>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/shop\/yellow-otherwise\/\"><em>Yellow Otherwise<\/em><\/a>, by\u00a0Nicolas Pesqu\u00e8s, translated by Lee Posna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yellow Otherwise, by Nicolas Pesqu\u00e8s, translated by Lee Posna, presents the 17th book of Nicolas Pesqu\u00e8s\u2019 monumental La face nord de Juliau, bringing this important French poet a step closer to the recognition he deserves and has already achieved in France. 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