“Infini Present”, the insect-loving inventory by Fabienne Raphoz

Published on November 26, 2024 at 11:57 p.m. / Modified on November 26, 2024 at 11:58 p.m.

Whether you are familiar with insects or know nothing about them, the astonishing beauty of the stag beetle drawn on the cover ofInfinite Presentpublished by Editions Héros-Limite, will certainly make you want to follow Fabienne Raphoz in the friendship she has for them. Friendship for the ladybug, “superlative star”, but also for the psocus and the sphex. From Thysanoures to Mécoptera, his new collection of poems rustles and flutters following the scientific classification order by order. Since childhood, she has loved making their names sing, “incomprehensible and therefore wonderful as Arachnids et Myriapodes», she explains in the presentation of the book.

Fabienne Raphoz's animal poetry combines the enthusiasm of Beaver Junior, always ready to set off on his daily hunts, with the taxonomic omniscience acquired and maintained in the calm of his library: “later, much later, I will know: / a Pearl – margined/with twisted wings/had taken my foot for/stone”. Far from a scholarly voice which describes and dissects a distant otherness, Fabienne Raphoz situates herself in the present of an encounter. She restores its wonder with a remarkable economy of means worthy of the greatest masters of haiku.

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