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Tending towards each other: between breath and inscription (2025)

Thais Akina Yoshitake Lopez
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This research is grounded in the relation between listening and orientation through a kindred gesture: tending towards. Its object of inquiry is the dialogue between Paul Celan’s poems and Gisèle Lestrange-Celan’s etchings in the publication Atemkristall (Brunidor 1965, Vaduz). The choice of this pairing arises from the possibility of bringing together two elements: the breath and the ground. I follow the flux and exchange between breathing gestures and inscription across the poems and etchings, approaching the images not as illustrations or representations of the text but as spatial configurations of encounter—between readers, listeners, makers, and witnesses. Attendance as a gesture of attention becomes palpable when the poet imagines that “the poem is pneumatically touchable” and that “the reader breathes into the poem.” In this turning-towards-the-poem, the etchings invite a reading of the poet’s gesture as it inclines toward another practice and medium. My interest lies in how, within this publication, both media affect and reorient one another, generating a shared space of reading. Extending this form of listening means approaching the relation between word and image as the opening of spaces of attention—listening as inclination, as stance, before any immediate attempt of translation.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsattention, poem, etching, cross-media, breath, publication, reading, Paul Celan, Edouard Glissant, Gisèle Lestrange
date12/09/2025
published21/11/2025
last modified21/11/2025
statuspublished
copyrightThais Akina Yoshitake Lopez
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3862089/3862090
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/rc.3862089
published inResearch Catalogue


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nameLe Rocher du Diamant
copyrightwww.edouardglissant.world
licenseAll rights reserved
usagespicture
nameatemkristall
copyrightEditions du Seuil
licenseAll rights reserved
usagespicture

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