Tentatives

by Ellen Dillon

TENTATIVES starts in playful slip-sliding between French and English, abseiling in the fissures that open between their imperfectly aligned layers. In the presence of the work of Fernand Deligny, this territory becomes treacherous, cratered with questions about what it means to be oneself, to be a self, and just to be, within and without language. These poems are tentatives, attempts to grasp something that remains always just beyond reach. They...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1915341086
• ISBN13: 9781915341082
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Pamenar Press
• Length: 74 Pages