First promising collection of Alizée Goulet, cloudy confronts the haze surrounding eating disorders, “this drowned way of existing”. The prose poems set up a learning story that has nothing to do with a haunting lament or even a daily pity.
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The poet succeeds in her challenge by linking her approach to the understanding of a feeling that transcends ill-being. It is about the oldest poetic profession in the world that she speaks to us. To love, to love, to receive and to give. She is therefore not alone in her perilous journey. There is the therapist, the lover or the lover. Fear has no gender, love even less so.
Alizée Goulet does not deny the “hole in famine of living”, the cleft of the belly “in the center of terror”, the bruises and other pains… Her narrator will admit moreover: “ [j’ai] undermined my skin without seeing the emptiness that I engendered”.
There is a lot of discussion about the body, flesh and bones, as with other authors who have, in the past, tackled this difficult, eminently personal subject. Fortunately, this physicality exists in a world where the concrete does not erase the poetic: the ocean which is the extremity of a cry, the wind which is interested in the hair, this fir tree which one would like to be.
On the lookout for sensations, the poet remains connected to objects and others. In particular, reading and writing carry and transform it. “I want my bones right here to respond to language. »
This is a very beautiful poetic credo!
cloudy
Alizée Goulet
Triptych
114 pages