http://www.egs.edu/ Poet Michel Deguy reading poetry from his volume Given Giving (1989) for the first time in English, followed by a discussion of his recent thoughts on poetry and poetics, including attachment / detachment to the word, the visible, slightly visible and hyper visible, truth, the problem of translation, transformation and transmission and how to "render non-erasable the becoming incredible" or the sublime. Michel Deguy at a public open lecture for the students of the ‹a href="http://www.egs.edu/"›European Graduate School egs, Media and Communication Studies department program‹/a›, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2004. Michel Deguy.
Michel Deguy, born in 1930 in Paris, is a French poet, thinker and professor of literature. Michel Deguy is the winner of the Prix Mallarme, the Grand Prix National de la Poesie (1989) as well as the Grand Prix de poésie de l'Académie française (2004). He is director and founding editor of Po&Sie (Editions Belin), the French journal of poetry, the editor of Les Temps Modernes, (originally founded by Jean-Paul Sartre) and the former president of the College International de Philosophie which he co-founded with Jacques Derrida (1990 - 1992). He is a translator of, amongst others, Martin Heidegger, Luis de Góngora, Sappho, Dante Alighieri, and various American poets. According to Jacques Derrida Deguy was one of the first to understand and translate the complex, key texts of Martin Heidegger. Both Jacques Derrida and Michel Deguy address similar questions: "What Derrida is to deconstruction, Michel Deguy is to the history of poetics in contemporary Europe" (Baldrige, 2005). Both attempt to understand the foundation of Western tradition, reinterpreting it to a radical new understanding rather than negate its core. Michel Deguy's poetry appears in the space between semiotics, deconstruction, phenomenology and structuralism, revisiting theory from within rather than without.
Essential motifs in his poetry includes Le Voyage, (the journey), the exchange between art and nature and likeness (as): "the one is not the other, the one is like the other" encapsulating a differing logic rather than equality. Deguy sees the lack of "likeness" as a great threat to poetry and culture, where the focus through mass media is increasingly on issues such as "identity" or sameness, rather than likeness. Examples of this lack of likeness are fundamentalism and human cloning.
English texts include: Recumbents (2005) and Given Giving (1989)
French texts include: Les Meurtrières (1959), Fragment du cadastre (1960), Poèmes de la Presqu'île (1961), Le Monde de Thomas Mann (1962), Biefs: poèmes (1964), Actes (1966), Ouï dire (1966), Réédité (1992), Histoire des rechutes (1968), Figurations: poèmes, propositions, études (1969), Poèmes 1960-1970 (1973), Tombeau de Du Bellay (1973), Coupes (1974), Interdictions du séjour (1975), Reliefs (1975), Abréviations usuelles (1977), Jumelages, suivi de, Made in USA: poèmes (1978), Vingt Poètes américains (1980), Donnant, Donnant: cartes, airs, brevets (1981), La Machine matrimoniale ou Marivaux (1982), René Girard et le problème du Mal (1982), Gisants. Poèmes (1985), Brevets (1986), Choses de la poésie et affaire culturelle (1986), Poèmes II. 1970-1980 (1986), La poésie n'est pas seule: court traité de poétique (1987), Le Comité. Confessions d'un lecteur de grande maison (1988), Du Sublime (1988), Arrêts fréquents (1990), Au sujet de Shoah. Le film de Claude Lanzmann (1990), L'Hexaméron: il y a prose et prose (1990), Aux heures d'affluence. Poèmes et proses (1993), À ce qui n'en finit pas (1995), À l'infinitif (1996), L'Énergie du désespoir, ou d'une poétique continuée par tous les moyens (1998), Gisants. Poèmes III 1980-1995. (1999), La Raison poétique (2000), L'Impair (2000), Spleen de Paris (2000), Poèmes en pensée (2002), Un homme de peu de foi (2002), L'amour et la vie d'une femme (2004), Au jugé (2004), Réouverture pour travaux (2004), Sans retour (2004), Donnant Donnant : Poèmes 1960-1980 (2006), Grand cahier Michel Deguy (2007), L'allégresse pensive (2007)
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