FRANCIS PONGE (b.1899) was a French writer whose style is characterized by its combination of poetry and prose to create lyrical essays on a topic. In his most famous work, “Le Parti Pris Des Choses,” he sets out to describe common, everyday objects in so much detail and precision that he loads them with metaphors. Italo Calvino describes the process Ponge undertakes as : “starting with things, and (returning) to us changed with all of the humanity we have invested in things.”
Ponge's work was described by Jean Paul Sartre as "lyrical phenomenology" in a 1956 issue of the Nouvelle Revue Française dedicated to the poet.
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