"In Earth and Mind: Dreaming, Writing, Being Michael Bishop examines the very recent work of nine major contemporary French and Francophone writers: Yves Bonnefoy, Jacqueline Risset, Salah St歋ti歋, V歋nus Khoury-Ghata, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Andr歋 Velter, Marie-Claire Bancquart, Jean-Claude Pinson and Jacques Dupin. The issue of writing's complex relation to the experience of the earth is of central pertinence, involving questions of dreaming, voice, figurativity, emotion, desire, revolt, metaphysics, meaning, poiein and being. Discussion entails close reading of works as well as broad contextualisation and a sensitivity to interrelevancies from writer to writer. Bishop's book is intended as a companion to his 2014 Dystopie et po鋱ein, agnose et reconnaissance: seize 歋tudes sur la po歋sie fran簙aise et francophone contemporaine"--