ABSTRACT
The question of the legitimacy of the outcome of poetic work as a common object, foundational thereby both of poetry and of its community, may clearly be approached on a level of principled abstraction, beyond any consideration of the pragmatics of verbal and written communication. The conception of poetic writing as parole, the re-placement of the artefact into an accompanying discourse of voiced presence, is indicative of an attempt to overcome this tension with pragmatic accounts in which speech abolishes the common object, or at least to elide it in theoretically oriented aspiration-building. The gap between imagined speech and actual writing becomes that in which the Utopian telos of community for the parole poetique, that is, the figure of its imaginary reception, takes form. 'Poetic speech' in its Utopian dynamic congregates around these two a priori unrelatable figures.
