Daniel Foucard's 'NOVO' Treats Poetry as Economic Code

In 'NOVO', Daniel Foucard approaches poetry as a code used in a purely economic relationship, rejecting fetishization of language. The work reads like a new social contract in 'NOUS' and 'VOUS', with characters Silke, Mark, and Sophie serving as witnesses to statements on sex, food, consumption, and labor. Foucard's poetry has the discursive simplicity of a mathematical dissertation, valuing immediacy over historical or generational debates. It avoids conflict and negation, presenting an affirmative, neutral poetic language that is contemporary and urban, described as 'ignorant' and 'incompetent'. The poet argues that knowledge is a freely accessible database, not a product of effort or transmission. Published by Al Dante / Éd. Léo Scheer, the review by Laurent Goumarre appeared in artpress in May 2003.