C’est ici que le verbe habiter s’est déchiré ; suivi de Sudbury : l’habitabilité de la poésie chez Patrice Desbiens
Composed of narrative and poetic fragments, C’est ici que le verbe habiter s’est déchiré follows the journey of a young man returning to his hometown, Québec. While wandering in the streets, but also through his own memories, the narrator will find on his path the point of rupture between past and present. C’est ici que le verbe habiter s’est déchiré proposes a reflexion on these places and times that, even if over, seem to never abandon us, all within a style of writing where silence is sometimes as eloquent as speech. As it’s name indicates, Sudbury: l’habitabilité de la poésie chez Patrice Desbiens is an essay regarding poetry as a living space within the poem Sudbury from Patrice Desbiens, a work that stages the daily routine of a small town in northern Ontario. Confronted to a cold and deserted place where nothing seems to subsist, within this town that he depicts at the same time as artificial, violent and unlivable, Desbiens seems to believe that only writing is authentic and bearer of truth. Hence, by entitling his work Sudbury, the name of the town where he lives, does the poet not present himself as the genuine author of the place? Does he not give a meaning to something that, before, was deprived of one? Is there not, in the end, a substitution of the opressive urban space for the one, more welcoming, of poetry?
Poésie Desbiens habiter Poetry creation space