Abstract
We propose to " start from literary situations and try to extend their intelligence on our ways of dealing with life ", by making " a look at speech and a look at ecology ". Indeed, talking about the world plays an active part in our relationship with it. And yet, there's a distrust of language : we need to keep quiet to be able to hear the world better. Yet speech, especially poetic speech, is in fact a response to and from the world. This is the program of Jacques Demarcq, who, in La Vie volatile, seeks to " write with birds in ear, in sight, in mind " : it's not a question of making birds talk, or talking like them, but of writing in their presence, trusting language. Jean-Claude Pinson, who claims that " a song grows within us from the trees ", uses the precision of poetic language to verbalize our symbiotic relationship with plants. He himself draws inspiration from the work of Aurélie Foglia, a poet who takes the silence of trees seriously, inviting us to speak tactfully, making room for a song coming from them, and following their gnarled lines, in the manner of sculptor Giuseppe Penone. A whole range of contemporary poetry shows us that everything mingles and blurs between the human and the non-human : well-formed statements enable us to express these rich states of reality, by creating the right links, as the poet does with syntax.
