Claude Royet-Journoud, one of France’s most influential post-1968 poets, is known for a spare, precise style that addresses the page as a stage for a poetics of immanence, emphasizing the materiality of language. The Whole of Poetry is Preposition, translated into English by Keith Waldrop, presents a collection of aphorisms, observations, and fragments that function as a poetic manifesto, articulating Royet-Journoud’s approach to language and the construction of meaning.

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