Ponge's Photographic Rhetoric

Light plays a central role in the writings of Francis Ponge; his poetry is inconceivable without it. But light - and its ultimate though problematic source, the sun - is more than just one theme or metaphor among many in Ponge's poetic universe; it is, in fact, the central metaphor around which all others turn. When we have understood light (and its contrary, dark) in Ponge, we will be able to understand the status of Ponge's own writings as objects within his light- and object-filled cosmos: we will understand what the writings describe and, perhaps more importantly, what they cannot describe

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