Through an asserted effort to exploit and divert literary traditions in his Poèmes, Genet aims at displaying unusual instances of passion to delight readers, to disrupt their values, and to finally choose subversion as style. This subversion seems to have taken its source in the life of the author – who explores poetry as much by vocation as through a desire to penetrate the literary field; – and was brought to fruition in the history, the reception and the different versions of his Poèmes. If the genetic publication of the complete collection and the draft texts of the Poèmes show a constant will by the author to remodel the ethos as well as a specific, cyclic and rhapsodic genesis style, the analysis of the versions also brings to light the emergence of a style that is directed towards reinventing the self, delighting the reader, reconfiguring language and transfiguring reality. This subversion style could be acknowledged as a play on forms and forces which aims at seduction and the undermining of norms. By being part of a validated and remodeled poetic genre, Genet states a paradoxical relation to metric norms and, by using affected and archaic speech filled with ostentatious figures, he subverts the doxa to weaken its linguistic, aesthetic and social codes. Moreover, Genet's style makes an extensive use of the metaphor in order to better seduce the reader and transfigure reality by rehabilitating a denigrated world and disparaged love. The choice of a forged and exemplary enunciative scenography, be it through its configuration or its register, puts the finishing touch to the construction of a marginal ethos, filled with pathematic force and stylistic singularity.