Compassion and co-enunication in Denise Desautels' 'Cimetieres, la rage muette' (Poetry)

The "subject" of poetry in the work of Denise Desautels is neither individu al nor collective. Though always singular, the subject nonetheless finds ex pression through several "voices," in general the voices of other creative people-painters, photographers or sculptors-with whom the speaking I seems to find community. This article explores the different ways of "being toget her" in poetic speech and the type of enunciative ethos that can be found-p articularly in Cimetieres: la rage muette-to underlie a type of writing wit h several voices, one that transcends classic oppositions between identity and alterity or individuality and collectivity to establish the conditions for the emergence of a new subjectivity.