Overyellow is part of a series that Nicolas Pesques has been writing over the past twenty-five years; beginning with a mountain that he sees outside his study window in the Ardeche region of France, Pesques uses an evocation of nature to reflect upon the nature of language and its tendency to separate us from immanent experience. The overyellow of the title refers to the brilliant color of the fragrant English broom that flowers all over the mountain every June. Subtle inter-relations of various powers, from the personal to the universal, create a meditative weave that accommodates both vivid imagery and philosophical speculation.
A bit in the way that Cezanne used Mont Sainte-Victoire as an anchor that allowed him a greater range of artistic exploration, Pesques returns again and again to his mountain to keep his free-wheeling linguistic experimentation well-grounded, creating a dynamic between concrete presence and abstract investigation that, by carefully avoiding equilibrium, keeps both poles in invigorating play.
Nicolas Pesques is the author of some fifteen volumes of poetry, the two most recent published by Flammarion. His work over the past twenty years constitutes a long meditation on the nature of language considered in relation to a mountain, Juliau, in south-central France. Two previous volumes from this series have been published in English translation--Physis (Parlor Press, 2006) and Juliology (Counterpath, 2008).
- ISBN:
- 9781602358973
- 9781602358973
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Category:
- Poetry
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
-
20-10-2016
- Publisher:
- Parlor Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 96
- Dimensions (mm):
- 229x152x6mm
- Weight:
- 0.15kg
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