We encounter space but we make place. Back in my collection of verse, Europa (2006), I first began to form this idea, prompted by poet, Yves Bonnefoy, who, incidentally, was born in Tours on the Loire in 1923. When we travel, it is clear that unknown towns and ports offer opportunities for the relief from space, not only the undifferentiated space of the ocean but also the possibility of an encounter that will relieve the isolation of the visiting researcher. An isolation felt even in the space of a noisy crowd. Max Jacob - Poet in Quimper, Brittany Max Jacob makes this encounter. His drunken sea captain is the beginning of a story that will make a place out of the space of Quimper's crowds. Where is that coffee house? Why does the action move to there? A demand is set up in the literary tourist. I am drawn to those urban European places, coffee houses. Intention and Expectation But we embark on fieldtrip...
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