A BLOW OF DICE NEVER WILL ABOLISH CHANCE/ A POEM

Un Coup de dés jamais n'abolira le Hasard feels to this day revolutionary and resoundingly contemporary, both for the suggestive pow er of its unconventional free verse and for its striking visual impact. For the poet, the white spaces, or scattered silences, are a s integral to the reading as the words on the page, and the very designthe typographical layers and the arrangement of lines and wo rds upon the page and across spreadscarries meaning and content.