Trace that breaks and word that folds. Notes on poetry and drawing in Yves Bonnefoy

Abstract

The poetic image, while interested in itself, risks what invariably proves to be a fake identity: adebugged language able to extract itself out of the common word and make itself the vehicle of a transcendent sense. This article issues some notes about how bonnefidian text oscillates between Image, illusion of transcendence, and images, the effect of a verbal heuristics particularly engaged in itsrhetorical/poetic immanences. The mirror of ink so composed never seems sufficiently translucid: this is an evidence whose main features the rapprochement between poetry and drawing helps to follow in this paper.