Hommes Continuels / Hombres Constantes

Anchors Orizet's poetry in a transatlantic contemporary context, between the modern prose poem of Aloysius Bertrand and Charles Baudelaire, and the renovation of poetic prose by Latin American modernism. This book leads the reader through the intricacies of the prose poem within Spanish, French, and English literary traditions.

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This work anchors Orizet's poetry in a transatlantic contemporary context, between the modern prose poem of Aloysius Bertrand and Charles Baudelaire, and the renovation of poetic prose by Latin American modernism. Award-winning Jean Orizet is one of the foremost living French poets. His book of prose poems "Hommes Continuels" was published in 1992. This French-Spanish bilingual edition of the work has a critical introduction that leads the reader through the intricacies of the prose poem within Spanish, French, and English literary traditions, and points out their interconnectedness in modern times. The introduction also situates this work by Orizet within the travel literature genre in France and underscores its cosmopolitan and avant-gardist underpinnings. It also explains L'entretemps, a key concept in Orizet's poetics based upon his metaphysical vision of man's conscience and of his persistence in the universe through the contemplation of matter and nature.