Poetry
Dialogue de mes lampes
Not translated into English
Clément Magloire-Saint-Aude · 1941
Synopsis
Eleven poems in a hermetic language, in which lamps, eyes and eyelashes recur insistently. The poet stands at the crossing of Symbolist suggestion and Surrealist automatism, and his obscure verses, according to the poet Christophe Charles, ask less to be understood than to be felt; they carry a message of independence, refusal and renunciation.
Context
The State printing house published the collection in 1941, the same year as Tabou; Philippe Thoby-Marcelin prefaced the 1957 reissue. André Breton, dazzled by this poetry, presented a selection of it in Le Figaro littéraire in 1947, a text reprinted in La Clé des champs. Jacques Veuillet brought together in Paris in 1970 the poet's three collections, with illustrations by Wifredo Lam, Hervé Télémaque and Jorge Camacho, and François Leperlier edited his complete works in 1998.
Who it is for
A slim volume of verse in French, about ten pages long, made accessible by the complete works of 1998; a poetry that refuses explanation.
Prizes and reception
Breton praised it in 1947; Dany Laferrière regards its author as the best poet of the Americas.
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