GILBERT LECOMTE, Robert Caves En Plein Ciel. Fata Morgana 1977.
8vo. Stitched wrappers; uncut pages; small booklet insert of text by Claudio Rugafiori; pp. 25 (6); fine
Roger Gilbert-Lecomte was a visionary French poet of the early 20th century, and co-founder of the artistic circle known as Le Grand Jeu. One of the group’s central practices involved the use of drugs to ‘derange the senses’, which first prompted Gilbert-Lecomte’s form-expanding, hallucinogenic poetry, but ultimately led to the addiction that occupied the last ten years of his life and the abandonment of his work. He died at the age of 32 and the collection of verse ‘Caves en Plein Ciel’ was compiled from papers found in his possession posthumously, mostly written when he was 18 years old. Together they comprise an extraordinary body of work that finds both new language and poetic form exploring emptiness and death, the cosmic spirituality of the unconscious self, and the terror and temptation of the abyss.
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