Boules de sensations-pensées-formes in Christophe Tarkos's Poetry

Abstract

This article explores Christophe Tarkos's poetic work and analyses which conception of thought and sensation is developed in his work. His poetry, I argue, rests on a materialist conception of poetic writing construed as a kneading process in which language can be shaped and reshaped continually. This manipulation gives rise to a complex, paradoxical discourse, characterized by a lack of causality which reflects an idiotic perception of the world and objects. This immanent conception of language reduced to its simplest expression stands in stark contrast with past poetic models and conveys a new definition of anti-lyrical poetic writing and of the poetic subject.