Didactic Poetries

Complex, haunting, imaginative and profoundly literary, Didactic Poetries is Beck s response to Schiller s statement: We are still waiting for a didactic poem where thought itself would be and would remain poetic, and Hegel s claim that, strictly speaking, didactic poetry isn t poetry. For the accla [...]
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Complex, haunting, imaginative and profoundly literary, Didactic Poetries is Beck s response to Schiller s statement: We are still waiting for a didactic poem where thought itself would be and would remain poetic, and Hegel s claim that, strictly speaking, didactic poetry isn t poetry. For the acclaimed French poet, Philippe Beck, Schiller s task of attempting a didactic poetry remains as vital today as it was for Schiller s time. Is there a way to construct a poetry built and chiseled, hammered and stitched, from out of past narratives and poetries, condensed in such a manner as to make new poetic verses sing new truths? Forging a singular attempt to echo the poets and tales of a bygone age, Beck s didactic poetries perhaps carve out the path for renewing a poetic thought as a quasi-musical atmosphere where the reader can glimpse A small country sculpted as spiritual, supposed to be so?at home in the Bygone Country. Alluvial layers so light, that weather disappeared, weary of variety a priori. Beck s deftly textured poems interweave contemporary commentary with cultural, historical, literary, and philosophical allusions, drawing the reader into a world of lived poetic experience."