Participants:
Matthieu Dupas (Paris III/Michigan)
Rebecca Halat (Minnesota)
Cindy Jones (Buffalo)
Katie Jones (Nottingham)
Sarah McMahon (Arizona)
Michael Rinaldo (Michigan)
Jennifer Solheim (Michigan)
David Vauclair (lecturer at ILERI, Paris)
Jane Weston (Bristol)
For this seminar, Michael Rinaldo presented some of his preliminary work on the problems of reading unlettered poems and the typography of poetry. Some of the problems he raised included the privileging in poetry criticism of writing over. voice, and the verbal over the pictorial. While noting that Francis Picabia's "Untitled" poem is readily pronounced in multiple languages since it is numeric, Mikey critiqued Dean Young's assessment of Man Ray's “Lautgedicht” as being written in a universal language, since this presupposes that the series of blanked out lines would be recognized by all "readers" as a form of poetry. Mikey continued by describing several possibilities for how to read both the text and musical notation for Robert Desnos's "L'asile ami."
Our next reading group will take place on Friday, March, 20. We will be reading an excerpt from Alain Corbin's Le miasme et la jonquille (The Foul and The Fragrant). If you would like to participate in the seminar, please email us at parisgradseminar@gmail.com.
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