Poetry thinks, is indignant: poetic community against cultural capitalism.
In poetry is not alone, Michel Deguy builds a "poetic poetic", ie a "poetic treatise" resting on the rigor of a current philosophical reflection and that does not neglect his writing. This book is therefore a treatise written poetically just ... "at a time when consumer societies, assigning to poetry a role in" cultural "field in the middle of tasks, would say security , social tasks in general, risk, consuming, of losing the dynamic speed of a discourse on heritage conservation and creativity or expression. "
The rigor of the concept and the obsession with literature: Poetry is not alone insists that the need to understand the true scope and own poetry, which is not exactly "cultural capitalism" that invades us today, but the radical approach of disparate elements by "as" metaphor, analogy, comparison, etc. Because through "as" poetry establishes its own form of judgment ( "a is-as b ') and sets up new communities," the comparante thought: one is not the other one is like the other; and, at this price, 'we' can form a 'we'. "

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Originally Analyzing the history of literature (Du Bellay, Hölderlin, Baudelaire, Mallarme or Kafka) and philosophy (Aristotle mimesis, Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida and Ricoeur), Poetry is not alone displays the fundamental issues that cross the work of one of the most important critics and French poets of the last forty years.