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Fortino Sámano: The Overflowing of the Poem Paperback – September 1, 2012

by Virginie Lalucq (Author), Jean-Luc Nancy (Author), Sylvain Gallais (Translator),
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Fortino Sámano (the overflowing of the poem), translated by Cynthia Hogue and Sylvain Gallais, with French on facing pages, is a collaborative work by the emerging French poet, Virginie Lalucq, and the distinguished philosopher, Jean-Luc Nancy. Lalucq wrote the serial poem, Fortino Sámano, after seeing an exhibit of photographs on the Mexican Revolution by Agustin Victor Casasola. Her series is a meditation on the single, extant photograph of Sámano, a Zapatista lieutenant and counterfeiter, which Casasola snapped as Sámano, smoking a last cigar, appeared to stare death nonchalantly in the face moments before his execution by firing squad (it was reported that he himself gave the order to fire). Little is known about Sámano, and Lalucq’s poem makes no attempt to be biographical or historical. Rather, she treats the image itself, the fact that the camera caught the image of life just prior to its end. What, then, does the image represent? She asks. Nancy’s section, Les débordements du poème (The overflowing of the poem), is a series of poetic commentaries on each of the poems in Lalucq’s series. It is a philosophical contemplation of the specific poem, Fortino Sámano, and also, a poetic investigation of the lyric genre, which works hand-in-hand with Lalucq’s poems. Fortino Sámano is an exciting poetic dialogue, and a significant work in poetics, which Hogue and Gallais have brought into English.
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  3. Publisher
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  4. Publication date
    September 1, 2012
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1890650676
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1890650674
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"We all know that the reader collaborates in the text. Here, a reader was given the chance to articulate his reading, which in turn changed the poem. The roles of poet and philosopher seem almost reversed: the poem's language is plain, stripped down, and engages philosophical questions, whereas Nancy attends to words rather in a poet's way, playing with sound, punning . . . what we have here is extraordinary: a collaboration that throws light on processes of thinking, poetic or philosophical."  —Rosmarie Waldrop, author, Driven to Abstraction

"A significant contribution to the literature of phenomenology and a work of groundbreaking scholarship."  —Richard Rand, professor, on Listening

"It encompasses both philosophy and autobiography, intellectual exploration and examination of feeling."  —Shenandoah Literary on Or Consequence

"Nancy is indeed one of the most interesting thinkers in France today."  —Common Knowledge on Being Singular Plural

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Jean-Luc Nancy(1940–2021) was one of the great figures of post-modern philosophy and one of the most influential contemporary thinkers. He taught philosophy at the Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg and was visiting professor with the universities of Berkeley, Irvine, San Diego, and Berlin.

Cynthia Hogue is a translator, poet, and the inaugural Marshall Chair in Poetry Emerita Professor of English at Arizona State University. She is the author of several books, most recently In June the Labyrinth. 

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Omnidawn; 1st edition (September 1, 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 200 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1890650676
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1890650674
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
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  • D. Siller
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Challenging book for lovers of poetry and philosophy
    Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2013
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    Taking its impetus from a long tradition of ekphrastic poetry, "Fortino Samano" does what all great books of poetry do: engages in the politics of life, engages in art, engages in thought, plays with language. What's more, the poetry overflows as the philosopher, himself engaged in the results of this art, his own ruminations bursts of prose poetry that toy with and manipulate the reader, and her understanding. For those unable to read the original French, the translations stay fairly close to the text, capturing the music and ideas behind the words. A few slips here and there, unknown to the non-Francophone, are easily forgiven, but instead open up the reader to an even more powerful active reading of the text. Dialogue between poet and philosopher becomes dialogue between poet, philosopher and translator, eventually leading to the reader, and her own role in the whole, beautiful, poetic, philosophical experience that is the book. Again and again, over and over.
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  • Scott R. Hightower
    5.0 out of 5 stars COLLABORATION and TRANSLATION
    Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2013
    Anyone interested in how meaning is transmitted between art forms will find this a very pleasing read. Part poetry, part philosophy; very much a book about the vector of creativity. We witness, then we tranfer that information. A book that will particularly appeal to people interested in considerations of Collaboration and Translation.... about the image as icon.
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