“At noon, a joy”, Maude Pilon

Maude Pilon invites the reader to an extraordinary reading experience with this “experimental communication”, which weaves links in the disorder involved in work, writing, reading, the birth of the artist and the implementation of the body. The writer explores her own relationship with writing by bringing it into dialogue with textile craft techniques, illness, Factory Diary by Simone Weil, the farewell notebooks to art by Lee Lozano and texts by medieval mystics. Maude Pilon does not need to reveal the codes of her universe so that the reader gets caught up in what emanates from chaos and indiscipline. While she analyzes and intertwines the various materials that litter her table, the poet little by little draws “the tools of a post-work era”, in which commitment is experienced rather in the refusal of the traced path and the rhythm imposed. Thus, the artist desubjectivizes sentences, ignores pronouns, invents a language and opens the door to the possibility of writing and reading which propose a new use of the world, and a radical change of paradigm, in which his story now takes on its full meaning.

At noon, a joy

★★★ 1/2

Maude Pilon, Les Herbes rouge, Montreal, 2024, 193 pages

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