World Literature Today, January 1st, 1998
Francois Muir has given us novels and recits, but L'hypothese du miroir is, to my knowledge, the first collection of poems he has published, albeit volume 1 in a series of as yet unspecified length. The collection is divided into three parts, untitled like all the poems throughout. Every text is compact, short in length and line, and is characterized by a syntactic ellipsis giving a largely nominal, substantival mode sometimes amplified via the attachment of brief subordinate clauses or the use of present participles. The overall impression is one of slender hanging monoliths of open-ended s...
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