Why Poetry ?

Fabrice Midal

The Heritage of Orpheus.

What if we knew nothing about poetry? Poetic today is often associated with incidental, beautiful or even soppy. Poetry, however, allows one to look upon words, the world, even existence from a completely different perspective, and it is the poets who guard the harmony between man and his environment.
Through the exploration of poetry's founding myth, Fabrice Midal shows us how to listen to and read a poem.

- Quotations from poets from all ages and from all continents.
- A simple and clear introduction that helps the reader to understand how to read a poem, its differences from philosophy or literature, and its origins.

Painter, editor and poet, PhD in Philosophy, Fabrice Midal teaches at the University of Paris VIII.