Un monde ouvert

Difficile d'imaginer une ouverture au monde plus grande que celle qui se trouve dans ce parcours d'écriture tracé à travers tous les livres de poèmes de Kenneth White. In fact, with this poet on a long course, imagination takes precedence over investigation and experience. His poetry explores an espace beyond the common spaces and codes, all the while affirming the illusions that humanity has invented in order to ensure its own future: mythology, religion, metaphysics, and even the sense of history. Above all, in this work without concession, but not without humour, it is a matter of maintaining a distance and a silence where being can still access a true presence, a plenitude, in the face of the theatre of the world. Intellectual nomad who follows unique circuits, founder of the géopoétique movement, Kenneth White affirms himself, through the multiple perspectives that he has brought to life, as one of the most striking and most precise creators of his time. Solitaire, in his atelier atlantique de la côte nord de la Bretagne, il est pourtant au coeur de tous les grands questionnements et sa poésie, qui prend souvenir la forme d'un livre d'heures, se révèle un puissant viatique.