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From the earliest decades of the 20th century onward, French poets nourished by European avant-garde artistic movements (futurism, dadaism, cubism) conducted radical experiments with typography, sound, and public performance. Poets freed their object from "traditional" poetic expression and, in a quest to explore such technologies as printing, sound recording, and film, gave their practice a newly public orientation. At the same time, other poets would shy away from performance to focus on language as a technology in itself (textualism, the early OuLiPo); on objects (Ponge); or on the expression of the subject (neo-lyricism). Based on close readings of, and listening to, works by Apollinaire, Ponge, Bonnefoy and Heidsieck among others, this course aims to sketch the diverse voies and voix that have ushered French poetry into the digital age. Taught in French.