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"Royet-Journoud's tetralogy, Four Elemental Bodies, assembles the volumes Reversal, The Notion of Obstacle, Objects Contain the Infinite, and Natures Indivisible [Le renversement, La notion d'obstacle, Les objets contiennent l'infini, Les natures indivisibles]. Claude Royet-Journoud is one of the most important contemporary French poets whose one-line manifesto: 'Shall we escape analogy' signaled a revolutionary turn away from Surrealism and its lush imagery. His spare, "neutral" language, stripped of devices like metaphor, assonance, alliteration has had a great influence on recent French poetry." -- back cover.