In <strong>Mute Objects of Expression</strong> Francis Ponge proclaims his goal to acceptthe challenge that thingsobjectsoffer to language. These objects and sc... » 

In Mute Objects of Expression Francis Ponge proclaims his goal to acceptthe challenge that thingsobjectsoffer to language. These objects and scenesare perceived with unique Pongean art and humor in this volume centering on theunoccupied southern Loire countryside where his family lived from 1940 to1943. Because of wartime shortages much of the book was drafted in a smallnotebook that made up his sole supply of paper. The poems recall the voices ofMarianne Moore and William Carlos Williams and evoke the violent perfume of themimosa the cries of carnations and the flirtations of wasps. He is moved toexplore a shadowy town square glimpsed from a bus window. But to conquer thislandscape of Provence? That would be too much claimed Ponge. Mute Objects ofExpression is one of Ponges most important and beloved volumes. «