Ils sortent

by Jean-Marie Gleize, Aliette Cosset (Illustrator)

Ils sortent. Ils se retirent. Les poètes et les autres comédiens. Avec manteaux, panoplies, costumes. Maintenant, la scène est vide. Les lauriers sont coupés. Le sol est plat, le terrain dégagé, lavé, simplifié. Marée basse. On respire.

36 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 1, 1994

About the author

Jean-Marie Gleize is the author of over twenty books in France. He published his first book (on Francis Ponge) in 1981, and became a professor at l’Université d’Aix-en-Provence as well as at the prestigious l’École normale supérieure de Lyon, where he would direct the Centre d’études poétiques from 1999 to 2009. In addition to his scholarly work on modern and contemporary French, Arabic, and American poetry, he would enter the first rank of French poets (or “post-poets,” as is sometimes said), aesthetically affiliated with peers such as Emmanuel Hocquard, Anne-Marie Albiach, and Claude Royet-Journoud