The Counter-profession: on the poems and visual art of Etel Adnan and Liliane Giraudon

Contrary to all expectations, the poetic genre is holding up. The current shifts, resurgences and urgency of poetry never cease to amaze. It responds to all those who would declare its obsolescence, or quite simply its imminent death, with great vitality: journals are created (Mouche and Place, which mix poetry and visual arts), publishers appear or become more robust, (Al Dante, Lanskine, Série Discrète…), poetry scenes that go beyond books are established (poetry festivals and poetry house...