Famous Jouissance Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Jouissance poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous jouissance poems. These examples illustrate what a famous jouissance poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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The Road To Haworth Moor

...nce of their lazy azure

Nor has the watery Pennine sun gone in before the swallows gather.



Perhaps I have lost that jouissance-and who would not given the tornadoes,

Undivined and undeserved that seized our lives in their burning fury,

Leaving us awake in a world of dark horizons and troubled days,

Our memory a cave of broken shards.



One death came when a brother and a mother gathered so that a father

Might die opportunely and without succour in a hill-top hospital...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry


To Four Psychoanalysts

...e space plumbed

With your finely honed probes

What days of unending distress lightened 

With your wisdom, skills and jouissance?

Conquistadores of the unconscious

For three decades how often have I come to you

And from your teachings gathered the manna

Of meaning eluding me alone in my northern eyrie?

Chance or God’s guidance – being a poet I chose the latter – 

Brought me to dip my ankle like an amah’s blessing

Into the Holy Ganges of prelude and grosse fuge 

Of e...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry

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