The Great Cycle of Life, or the Human Odyssey, is a cycle of fourteen poems—to be spoken, shouted, and whispered—comprising over thirteen hundred pages. A CD has been produced featuring the author reading a significant excerpt from each poem and a sound composition created specifically for each poem by Laurent Maza. A stage version of this CD, featuring a slideshow by the painter Lawrence as a backdrop, has been performed three times, the last at the Théâtre du Beauvaisis—a national theater located in the barn of the Maladrerie Saint-Lazare in Beauvais—the first performance being available to view in its entirety online. Readings of excerpts have taken place, as well as the publication and exhibition of passages in artists' books or "livres pauvres" (poor books). A complete reading of the entire Great Cycle of Life, or the Human Odyssey, is available online. The End of a Century! is the fourth poem in the cycle. Publication date: January 2, 2026. Order Press release

The Great Cycle of Life, or the Human Odyssey, is a cycle of fourteen poems—to be spoken, shouted, and whispered—comprising over thirteen hundred pages. A CD has been produced featuring the author reading a significant excerpt from each poem and a sound composition created specifically for each poem by Laurent Maza. A version of this CD was created for the stage with a slideshow by the painter Lawrence as a backdrop and performed three times, the last at the Théâtre du Beauvaisis—a national theater in the barn of the Maladrerie Saint-Lazare in Beauvais—the first performance being available to view in its entirety online. Readings of excerpts have taken place, as well as the publication of passages in artists' books or "livres pauvres" (poor books) and exhibitions. A complete reading of the entire Great Cycle of Life, or the Human Odyssey, is available online. The Limits of Sexuality, Finally Pushed Back, is the third poem in the cycle. Publication date: November 3, 2025. Order Press release

The Great Cycle of Life, or the Human Odyssey, is a cycle of fourteen poems—to be spoken, shouted, and whispered—comprising over thirteen hundred pages. A CD has been produced featuring the author reading a significant excerpt from each poem and a sound composition created specifically for each poem by Laurent Maza. A stage version of this CD, featuring a slideshow by the painter Lawrence as a backdrop, has been performed three times, the last at the Théâtre du Beauvaisis—a national theater located in the barn of the Maladrerie Saint-Lazare in Beauvais—the first performance being available to view in its entirety online. Readings of excerpts have taken place, as well as the publication and exhibition of passages in artists' books or "livres pauvres" (poor books). A complete reading of the entire Great Cycle of Life, or the Human Odyssey, is available online. The Choice of Madness is the second poem in the cycle. Publication date: September 1, 2025. Order Press release

The Great Cycle of Life, or the Human Odyssey, is a cycle of fourteen poems—to be spoken, shouted, and whispered—comprising over thirteen hundred pages. A CD has been produced featuring the author reading a significant excerpt from each poem and a sound composition created specifically for each poem by Laurent Maza. A stage version of this CD, featuring a slideshow by the painter Lawrence as a backdrop, has been performed three times, the last at the Théâtre du Beauvaisis—a national theater located in the barn of the Maladrerie Saint-Lazare in Beauvais—the first performance being available to view in its entirety online. Readings of excerpts have taken place, as well as the publication and exhibition of passages in artists' books or "livres pauvres" (poor books). A complete reading of the entire Great Cycle of Life, or the Human Odyssey, is available online. Solitude is the first poem in the cycle. Publication date: July 1, 2025. Order Press release

The "Polaroid camera" is first and foremost a concept. Writing very close up. Very close to the lens, very close to sex, in a state of erection. A very brief moment, as brief as the orgasm. Writing about the orgasm, the obscenity, the unseen, the unspeakable. Writing about seeing, the immediate. About the sweat, too, that stands on the skin. Fleeing from the spiritual and showing only the body, its obscenity. At the time when the Polaroid camera will replace the photographic cliché (and pornographic ones). A "cycle of sperm," a "cycle of piss," and a "cycle of shit"—corresponding to the image of the three elements of sexual matter, taking shape depending on the arrival of these Polaroid cameras. The work is accompanied by nine ink drawings by the artist Jacques Cauda. Release: October 1, 2024. Order. Press release.

In keeping with the "Writer's Diagonal" series, Alain Marc's second book in this collection immerses us in the world of a writer who explores the possibilities of everyday life to traverse the paths of thought applied to the problems of the intellectual confronted with his art. "When we look at literature outside of any literary movement, history, or author, all sorts of surprising associations become possible," he writes. Surprising associations abound in this book, written with finesse, elegance, and depth. "What do we write to say, ultimately? We simply cannot remain silent..." To remain silent would be a crime against oneself, and also against others who await nourishment, hence the necessity of publication to make our work known. The author becomes a conduit for his singularity, marking his visceral attachment, day after day, to fragmentary literature, the drumbeat of human resonance. *Literature, About* is a paean to "thought never stops." Publication date: July 1, 2023 Order now

“From Depth,” “Readings for the Depths,” “Visions of the Work,” “Around Incandescence.” Four titles that define a territory: that of a powerful, expressive literature that reaches the very core of our being. Composed primarily of reading notes and articles published in periodicals and journals—Europe, Les Lettres françaises, Contre Vox, Le Bord de l'eau, La Revue Commune, Les Cahiers Laure, Cahiers de Tinbad…—or websites—Poezibao, Lecteurs de Pierre Jean Jouve, Recours au poème, La Revue des ressources, La Cause littéraire…—this critical collection, gathered from the editor's daily discoveries, offers a perspective on contemporary literature, but also on the literature that shaped it. And it doesn't forget erotic literature. A highly personal vision of literature and poetry emerges, one that challenges, or rather, brings to the forefront, the question of literature's function, its place, particularly in society, and, for poetry, the poetic function itself. The accumulated panorama, unfolding from article to article and note to note, is the fruit of a journey that also includes the cry, a concept developed notably in the essay *Writing the Cry*. And since there is no literature without a politics of literature, "Around Incandescence" brings together articles that address censorship, publishing, and so on. Far from the article, which is always supposed to exhaust its subject, the "Journal of the Moment," a series of notes, is interspersed, offering a different tone. "Visions of the Work" follows closely, gathering articles on the works of writers who share the power of their writing. * Éditions l'Écarlate, Orléans, 2000. Publication date: September 1, 2021. Order now