Rémi Froger's 'Chutes, essais, trafics' Reviewed by Pascal Boulanger

Pascal Boulanger reviews Rémi Froger's poetry collection 'Chutes, essais, trafics' in artpress. The work is described as a mosaic of gaps, exploring voices and dissonance, instability and the provisional, proposing a new relationship to time and narrative. Froger's writing breaks conventional flow, short-circuits common meaning, and relaunches improbable dialogues or soliloquies, undoing what is believed about reality and its violence. The poetry rejects easy metaphor and subjective certainties, instead engaging with suffocation and the arrangement of terror amid the noise of machines and screens. It depicts the end of a world that continues to end, a series of falls, attempts, and uncertain traffics woven from unrelated echoes. The center is untraceable, and the subject-object split no longer functions. The work plants the periphery of events at the heart of language and thwarts traps of representation and grandiloquence. Boulanger notes that this poetry, informed by American objectivists, Emmanuel Hocquard, and Christian Prigent, innovates by refusing learned speech and calculative thought, across eighty-one enumerations that traverse reality's thickness and account for what undermines existence. The review was published in artpress in February 2004.