Drew loves playing with his friends and being silly with his eight-year-old sister, Jayne. But one day after he wakes up and discovers something is different, Drew quickly learns that life can change in an instant. Jayne seems sad, lonely, and quiet. Even worse, she doesn’t want to eat, listen to music, ride her bike, or climb trees. Drew asks her every day if she wants to play, but Jayne refuses—until the day she finally says “Yes!” As Jayne sets out on a journey of recovery with help fro...

This volume explores how poets use different kinds of formal experimentation to change the way we think, and to allow us to try out new ways of perceiving existence and positioning ourselves within the world. Yves Bonnefoy and Jean-Luc Nancy: Ontological Performance examines the affinities that exist between Bonnefoy's poetry and Nancy's philosophy. It analyses how Bonnefoy experiments with the poem's act of address, its material disposition, and sonorous performance. It scrutinis...