Denis Roche's Complete Works Reveal a Poet Without Remorse

Philippe Forest, upon reading the complete works of Denis Roche, discovered an alternative trajectory to the one long recognized by informed readers. To understand it, one must realize that the poet is without remorse, persistent, and that the keys to his recent works lie in his past ones. Across his texts, the author's undeniable desire for destruction emerges, and when he announced his definitive departure from Poetry, he kept his promise. As a photographer and editor, he nevertheless continued to write, but from a different perspective, which he calls "the other side of truth."