{"product_id":"derisions-et-vertige-trouvures-by-jean-senac-french","title":"'Dérisions et Vertige: trouvures' by Jean Sénac (French)","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"731\" data-end=\"1090\"\u003eJean Sénac’s poetry sits at a charged crossroads: French and Algerian, erotic and political, intimate and insurgent.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"731\" data-end=\"1090\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"861\" data-end=\"883\"\u003eDérisions et Vertige\u003c\/em\u003e belongs to the later arc of his work, where lyric intensity and formal sharpness meet a life lived in public fracture — decolonisation, exile, desire, language, nationhood, all pressing against one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1092\" data-end=\"1439\"\u003eThis is not polite poetry, nor safely museum-kept francophone verse. Sénac writes with heat, abrasion, and tenderness, trying to make a language equal to contradiction: beauty without innocence, identity without purity, love without shelter. A serious copy for readers of twentieth-century poetry who like their literature lit from inside by risk. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan data-start=\"86\" data-end=\"133\"\u003eF\u003c\/span\u003erench-language Actes Sud edition from 1983. Some marginalia in black ink pen, otherwise in great condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44271342944339,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-03-24T154552.408.png?v=1774327723","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/derisions-et-vertige-trouvures-by-jean-senac-french","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}