It happens that moments of grace are offered to us through a book, as in François Cheng's new collection,
Suite orphique
, composed of 99 quatrains.
Nuggets on every page.
The poet speaks of death and deaths and yet it is joy that seizes us, a joy which can sometimes be tinged with sadness born from the awareness that things never remain and that beings die - this is the order things.
It is obviously no coincidence that the author of
True Glory Is Here
brings us to the side of the myth of Orpheus.
He gives us the key:
“Death erases nothing;
Orpheus will persist/ In turning around, pulling the beloved from the shadows./ The Median Void will turn everything into song,/ And the torn body into resonant breath.”
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The academic Daniel-Henri Pageaux, a great connoisseur of the work, explains it in an enlightening afterword.
He says: to place this series of quatrains under the sign of Orpheus is first of all to inscribe these poems in the inaugural journey of a mortal to the...
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