Pascal Boulanger's 'L'Emotion l'Emeute' Reviewed in art press

In the September 2003 issue of art press (n°293), Claude Adelen reviews Pascal Boulanger's poetry collection 'L'Emotion l'Emeute'. Boulanger, author of 'Martingale' (1995) and 'Tacite' (2001), is positioned as a poet who takes poetry seriously as an exercise in gravity and depth, rejecting superficial language games. The review highlights Boulanger's distinctive voice, which opens with the line 'J'appelle poésie cette intrigue de l'infini' and avoids fashionable trends. The collection is described as conveying a consciousness of writing on the edge of disgust and nothingness, without gesticulation or pathos. Adelen notes the vibration of images that bring a great breath of space and light into the poem, citing lines about painted shields lost in the sea and a journey beginning above mountains. The fragmented rhythm is likened to the scansion of a heart refusing to be torn apart, while prose passages have the clarity of living waters. The review emphasizes that the poem awakens from the nightmare of History to remind that poetry opens our eyes in times of darkness. Boulanger is praised for his seriousness, balancing acquiescence and anger, emotion and riot, while still capturing the beauty of the world.