Unfinished Ode to Mud

Still radical, the poems of Francis Ponge seek to give the things of the
world their due. Impatient with the usual baggage of literary
description, Ponge attends to a pebble, a washpot, an eiderdown, a
platter of fish, with lyrical precision; playing with sounds, rhythms
and associations of words, he creates wholly new objects - 'but which
may be more touching, if possible, than natural objects, because human'
('My Creative Method').