Les vignes du Seigneur

A sequence of lyrical pieces that celebrate wine, rural vineyards, and provincial life in southwestern France, alternating playful odes to intoxication with pastoral descriptions of Médoc scenery, village customs, and lovers' encounters. The poems personify drink, evoke tavern brawls and festive dances, and map the landscape of vines, dunes, and riverbanks, while mixing sensual pleasure with melancholy and social observation. Tone ranges from convivial humor to wistful reflection, and the collection interweaves vivid natural imagery, local color and character sketches with meditations on desire, memory, and the joys and dangers of excess.