Tournoiements aveugles
€550.00
In *Tournoiements aveugles* (1987) Francis Ponge returns to compact, exact prose that lets things speak. Issued by L’ire des vents, the book is typographically crisp and bibliophilic: a quarto on handmade paper, luxuriously bound in brown morocco with balsa boards, chemise and slipcase. The material choices—light balsa, warm leather, breathing wove—sharpen the text’s sensorial acuity. Each “whirling” circles its subject through turns and reprises until clarity is released. The spare layout paces both reading and silence. A model fusion of poetic precision and fine press craft.
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Tournoiements aveugles
1987 | Paris | L’ire des vents
A late Ponge on handmade paper, conceived with tactile precision and quiet intensity.
In *Tournoiements aveugles* (1987) Francis Ponge returns to compact, exact prose that lets things speak. Issued by L’ire des vents, the book is typographically crisp and bibliophilic: a quarto on handmade paper, luxuriously bound in brown morocco with balsa boards, chemise and slipcase. The material choices—light balsa, warm leather, breathing wove—sharpen the text’s sensorial acuity. Each “whirling” circles its subject through turns and reprises until clarity is released. The spare layout paces both reading and silence. A model fusion of poetic precision and fine press craft.
€550
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In-4 (Quarto) approx. 25 × 32 cm
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One of 50 numbered copies on handmade wove from the Moulin de Pombié.
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50
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45
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vélin à la main du moulin de Pombié
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The volume gathers brief prose poems in which Ponge approaches the world by circling—reformulations, inversions, attention to detail. Language gropes, turns, arrests; meaning emerges from friction and reprise. The clean typography enforces a slow read. The quarto scale and handmade paper lend gravity to a modest register. Balsa boards add lightness and tactile tension.
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