The Poem of the Poem

Among the diverse and multiple attempts recently made at the efficacious joining of poetic theory and practice, one of the most convincing is that series of texts Michel Deguy has devoted to the peculiarly self-involved nature of the poetic act. Refusing, for instance, the distinctions ordinarily holding between essay and poem, he defines the latter as the language of itself, a tightly-coiled infinity of utterance devoid of exterior connections. Its own

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