experience of everyday objects. He described his own works as "a description-definition-literary artwork" which avoided both the drabness of a dictionary and the inadequacy of poetry. His principal aim was to avoid stereotypical thinking. In Le Grand Recueil (The Grand Collection), published in 1961 he explained his "concentration on simple objects – stones, grass, directed towards a restoration of the power and purity of language," according to his obituary in The Times. In 1967 he published his best-known work, Le Savon, translated as Soap (1969), a long prose poem that, in the words of The Times "is unique precisely because, and often very humorously, it exhausts the topic of the word and the thing." An extract from the original, and an English translation published in 1969, illustrate this: Other works include 'La Guêpe', a word play on the name of painter Émile Picq (1911–1951). Bibliography Le Parti pris des choses (1942) Proêmes (1948) La Rage de l'expression (1952) Le Grand Recueil (I. "Méthodes", 1961; II. "Lyres", 1961; III "Pièces", 1962) Pour un Malherbe (1965) Le Savon (1967) as Soap, Jonathan Cape, London Interviews with Philippe Sollers (1970) La Fabrique du Pré (1971) Comment une figue de paroles et pourquoi (1977) Pages d'atelier, 1917–1982 (Gallimard, 2005) Source of information and publicity for Francis Ponge's work The association based on a suggestion of Armande Ponge (daughter of Odette and Francis Ponge) was founded by Jean-Marie Gleize in Paris in 2011 and was named Société des Lecteurs de Francis Ponge (S. L. F. P.). The Ordinary General Assembly take place once a year alternatively in Paris and in Lyon. The association is aimed not only at disseminating and promoting Ponge's writing, but also at encouraging cultural knowledge and research. It provided financing for the publication of the Society's bulletin replaced since 2017 by the Cahiers Francis Ponge published by Classiques Garnier. The Internet site (http://francisponge-slfp.ens-lyon.fr) offers news, historical as well as recent articles, links and contains some informations about Francis Ponge's works, letters and manuscripts and radio, video, photo archives. Notes Further reading Commentaries on Ponge Jacques Derrida, in his essay, "Psyche: Inventions of the Other," minutely analyzes Ponge's poem, "Fable." Jacques Derrida, in his book Signeponge-Signsponge, English translation by Richard Rand, Columbia University Press, 1984. Philippe Sollers, in his essay Francis Ponge, Seghers éditions, Paris, 2001. Annick Fritz-Smead, Francis Ponge: De l'Ecriture à l'Oeuvre, Peter Lang Publishing, 1997. Marco Nuti, Au Pays