Michel Deguy

"... Michel Deguy is a nomad poet, traversing all spaces and times, and his poems act as a space to bring interaction, rather than a fusion of disparate things. If his early collections were occupied with his constant exploration of the space outside the periphery of Being, his succeeding works gave a central stage to the language and role of metaphor. Famous for a lively style bursting with neologisms, rare words and coinages, his late works show the poet as a traveler, lover and mass media consumer, with his poetry bearing the signs and discourses of the reality of the modern world. According to Michel Deguy, the essence of any relation to that world is to be found in the element of desire."
Michel Deguy - Professor of Poetry
Cerise Press
YouTube: The Artist in the Poet: Words, Language and Poetry 2004 1/9, 2/9, 3/9, 4/9, 5/9, 6/9, 7/9, 8/9, 9/9