Description: In this work, begun during the German occupation, the eminent French poet and philosopher began to turn away from the small, perfect poem toward a much more open form, a kind of prose poem that recounted its own process of coming into being along with the final result.
Review Quotes: "This text manages to be whimsical, political and philosophical all at once by behaving like its subject--soap--and slipping between modes."--Matthea Harvey, Boston Review