Form and Love in the Poetry of Jacques Roubaud

Can love poetry be the site of a creative partnership? When a poem is written by the male poet for the woman he loves, both addressed to her and taking her as its object, how does – how can – she interact with it? This book represents a foray into the love poetry of Jacques Roubaud, tracing a lifetime of writing from the ardour of first love to the pain of grief and loss. The author brings Roubaud’s poetry into proximity with evolving views on the sexual relation from Freud, Lacan and Irigaray i