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Author:agent Dominique Hecq

Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 Margins: The Poetic Text and Its Theoretical Gesturing

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'...any attempt to define a marginal space for poetry implies some desire to leave poetic texts open, mobile, and not to lock them forever in neat structures produced by criticism - interpretations that would exhaust them.' Hecq discusses her own work and 'urges us to explore those axiomatic forces that shape literary traditions as well as the world outside the text.'

Notes

Editor's note: This paper is an adaptation of a talk given at the Melbourne Poets Union on 27 July 2003 as part of a forum on 21st Century Poetries. Except for 'Couchgrass' (SideWaLK 6, 2000), 'Ghostmap' (Papertiger 2004), 'Hunt the Slipper' and 'Footnote', all poems quoted are from Dominique Hecq, Good Grief (Papyrus, 2002).
Epigraph: Dites-bien, lecteur ou lectrice, ou dis-toi bien (car a me lire tu deviendras de mes proches) que si je dis ici, c'est plus pour dire que pour dire quelque-chose. (Michel Leiris, Le Ruban au cou d'Olympia)