{"product_id":"les-fievres-et-les-humeurs-three-themes-in-chamber-verse-paperback","title":"Les Fièvres et les Humeurs: Three Themes in Chamber Verse - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristopher Sandbatch\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLes Fièvres et les Humeurs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, lyric poetry is permitted to concern itself with order, gravity, and the spiral of a single emotion's mutation under moral constraint and consequence. This is poetry without consolation, and without confession.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is arranged in three movements-\u003cb\u003eObsession\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eRuin\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eDésir\u003c\/b\u003e-not as psychological themes but as governing conditions. Each establishes a tonal field in which recurrence, collapse, and residue are tested for endurance. The organizing principle is musical rather than narrative: poems are scored in keys rather than arranged by subject, allowing dissonance while refusing arbitrariness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the first movement, obsession appears as formal recurrence: fixation, variation, and excess of return. Images and gestures are repeated until they either break or prove capable of bearing weight. In the second, ruin is treated not as aftermath but as an atmosphere of crisis; a civic and ethical condition in which structures decay at unequal speeds. The final movement turns toward desire, not as appetite, but as what remains after obsession exhausts itself and ruin forges its restraint.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout, the poems move between strict forms and freer measures-sonnets, variations, cantatas, monodies-without nostalgia for harmony and without indulgence in disorder. Form here is not decoration but discipline: a means of testing whether intensity can justify itself as meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume is the author's debut full-length collection, published by \u003cb\u003eSt. Expedite Press\u003c\/b\u003e, an independent imprint based in New Orleans, where the book's sensibility-its attention to ritual, decay, endurance, and lived climate-finds a natural correspondence. The book presents itself as a unified object rather than a curated assortment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoems, neither of immediacy, nor of personal revelation; they emerged from a very old place, and from that place they inherited very old themes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRather than attempt vainly to solve those themes, a song is made from them.\u003c\/b\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 72\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.17 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 03, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56149986705713,"sku":"9798994203507","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1004\/9532\/7537\/files\/StD0-oPdeZ9798994203507.webp?v=1788689261","url":"https:\/\/mitchellofficial.com\/products\/les-fievres-et-les-humeurs-three-themes-in-chamber-verse-paperback","provider":"MITCHELL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}