ABSTRACT
This article presents the work of Christophe Tarkos (1963-2004), one of the principal names of contemporary French poetry, with a focus on his formulations about language. The objective is to explain the linguistic theory that can be deduced from his work, both in the more essayistic writings and in interviews, and in the less conceptual realization in the actual poems. Our hypothesis is that Tarkos's poetics creates its own concept, that of the "word-paste" (pâte-mot), bringing with it a singular and poetic way of understanding the linguistic meaning.
KEYWORDS:
Contemporary Poetics; Christophe Tarkos; Repetition