The literary movement Spatialisme, founded in the beginning of the 60s in France, is part of an experimentalist turn within the fields of poetry and visuality. In that avant-garde, Ilse Garnier wrote Blason du Corps Féminin (1979), with... more
The literary movement Spatialisme, founded in the beginning of the 60s in France, is part of an experimentalist turn within the fields of poetry and visuality. In that avant-garde, Ilse Garnier wrote Blason du Corps Féminin (1979), with poems that radicalize the graphic potencies of the word “body” and reveal how its writing, through the dismemberment, multiplication and displacement of the vowel “o”, evidences the performatic nature of all visual poetry. According to the analysis presented in this paper, in light of French post- structuralist theories, the feminine bodies in Ilse’s poetic corpus are built as moving spatialities, which unfold into different ways of making/becoming texts. Thereby, they clearly resemble algebraic manipulations, where variables – represented by letter in mathematic equations – are moved within the poem to yield new aesthetic calculations. Keywords: Ilse Garnier, Visual poetry, Feminine body
