Typoésie: Anthologie de poésie typographique

by Jérôme Peignot

French

464 pages, Hardcover

Published October 5, 2005

About the author

Jérôme Peignot was a French novelist, poet, pamphleteer, and an expert in typography. The author of some thirty books, he was awarded the Prix Sainte-Beuve, took part in publishing the writings of Laure (his aunt Colette Peignot), as well as a major anthology on "Typoésie". He was the grandson of Georges Peignot, typographer and director of the foundry G. Peignot et Fils. Peignot was also known for having launched the concept of acousmatic sound in the 1960s. His mother was soprano singer Suzanne Peignot.