After twenty years of the "temps de poème" gatherings in Lannion, fifteen in Saint-Malo and five in Achères, Yvon Le Men has kept the same desire to question, Maigret-like, the people he meets: where does Boualem Sansal find the courage to confront both Islamists and a thoroughly corrupt Algerian regime, where does Claude Vigée's chosen name come from, where does Azouz Begag's smile, sometimes shadowed by melancholy, come from, where do Seyhmus Dagtekin and Björn Larsson find the ability to change language as one changes horses at a border post, where does the peace within Bernard Noël's violent poems come from. Francis Goeller's black-and-white photographs accompany this long introduction by Le Men, a second, independent volume in the same long-running poetry project.