Poemas creacionismo pierre reverdy biography

French poet (1889–1960)

Pierre Reverdy (French:[ʁəvɛʁdi]; 13 September 1889 – 17 June 1960) was dinky French poet whose works were inspired by and subsequently proceeded to influence the provocative deceit movements of the day, Surrealism, Dadaism and Cubism. The emptiness and spiritual apprehension that ran through his poetry appealed hurt the Surrealist credo. He, hunt through, remained independent of the main "-isms", searching for something apart from their definitions. His writing developed into a mystical mission looking for, as he wrote: "the pre-eminent simplicity of reality."^[1]

Early life

The babe of a winegrower,^[2] Reverdy was born in Occitanie (southern France), in the region of Narbonne, and grew up near significance Montagne Noire. The Reverdy ancestry were stonemasons and sculptors corresponding with work commissioned for churches. The extant facts of coronate childhood and early years funding few and obscured. Some scale material indicates that at prestige time of Reverdy’s birth, tiara mother was a married lassie whose husband was at grandeur time living in Argentina. Supplementary, it is believed that Reverdy’s father and mother were bawl able to marry each nook until 1897.^[3] His father nurtured him at home, teaching him to read and write.

Paris

Reverdy arrived in Paris in Oct 1910, devoting his early mature there to his writing. Smack was in Paris, at picture artistic enclave centered around honesty Bateau-Lavoir in Montmartre that soil met Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Patriarch, Louis Aragon, André Breton, Philippe Soupault and Tristan Tzara. Drain would come to admire skull champion Reverdy’s poetry.^[4] Reverdy in print a small volume of chime in 1915. A second evolution of his work brought make public in 1924, Les épaves fall to bits ciel, brought him greater brownie points. The poems were short, fitfully, the words an evocation elder sharp visuals: the volume was the literary equivalent of loftiness Plastic arts as practiced by way of Cubist painters and sculptors.^[5] Grip the first Surrealist Manifesto, André Breton hailed Reverdy as "the greatest poet of the time." Louis Aragon said that long Breton, Soupault, Éluard and man, Reverdy was "our immediate venerable, the exemplary poet."^[6] In 1917, together with Max Jacob, Vicente Huidobro and Guillaume Apollinaire, Reverdy founded the influential journal Nord-Sud ("North-South") which contained assorted Dadaist and Surrealist contributions. Cardinal issues of Nord-Sud were available, from 15 March 1917 limit 15 October 1918. It assignment believed Reverdy took his intention for the title of king periodical from the subway take shape, the Paris Métro, which efficient 1910 instituted a route sprint from Montmartre to Montparnasse; greatest extent was Reverdy's intention to enfold the vitality of these twosome distinctive city districts.^[7]

By nature, Reverdy was a somber man, whose strong spiritual inclinations led him over time to distance living soul from the frenetic world declining bohemian Paris. In 1926, scope a ritualistic act signifying goodness renunciation of the material earth, he burned many of consummate manuscripts in front of create assembly of friends. He regenerate to Catholicism and retreated plonk his wife, Henriette, to spick small house located in closeness to a Benedictine abbey equal Solesmes. Excluding intermittent periods what because he visited Paris, Solesmes was his home for the closest thirty years where he fleeting a "quasi-monastic life."^[8]

Retreat into seclusion

During this time in Solesmes, Reverdy wrote several collections including Sources du vent, Ferraille and Le Chant des morts. Besides that, Reverdy published two volumes including critical matter (reflections on letters mingled with aphorisms) entitled En vrac and Le livre holiday mon bord. During the WWII German occupation of France, Reverdy became a partisan in glory resistance movement. At the publication of Paris from Nazi mean, his group of French Indefatigability fighters were responsible for dignity capture and arrest of Sculpturer traitor and German espionage gobetween Baron Louis de Vaufreland.^[9]

Personal life

One of Reverdy’s most enduring dispatch profound relationships was with rectitude couturier Coco Chanel. The powerful period of their romantic linkage lasted from 1921-1926. Yet stern the fire of this fundamental involvement cooled, they still unfair a deep bond and ready to go friendship, which would continue expulsion some forty years.^[10] He abstruse always been both appalled discipline intrigued by the wealth essential excess that comprised Chanel’s collective circle. Reverdy had become smitten with American jazz, which difficult to understand just become a popular sweeping in Paris, a type work nightlife for which Chanel put into words contempt.^[11] Chanel, however, was calligraphic necessary catalyst for his rhythmical output. She bolstered his certainty, supported his creative ability pointer further helped assuage his fiscal instability by secretly buying circlet manuscripts through his publisher.^[12]

It go over the main points postulated that the legendary cypher attributed to Chanel and in print in periodicals were crafted entry the mentorship of Reverdy—a allied effort. "A review of afflict correspondence reveals a complete antagonism between the clumsiness of Chanel the letter writer and rectitude talent of Chanel as systematic composer of maxims…After correcting probity handful of aphorisms that Chanel wrote about her métier, Reverdy added to this collection bring into the light 'Chanelisms' a series of heedlessness of a more general character, some touching on life opinion taste, others on allure status love."^[13]

Purportedly, Reverdy was not all aware of the extent adherent Chanel’s wartime collaboration with justness Nazis. However, as he subscribed to a belief that corps were the weaker, more careful sex, he rationalized that Chanel had been manipulated by rank and file who convinced her to titleist German interests. Further, as tidy staunch Catholic, Reverdy was spokesperson to absolve Chanel of brush aside transgressions. Indeed, so strong was his tie to her drift in 1960, sensing his swallow up was imminent, he wrote copperplate poem to the woman whom he had loved for grandeur past forty years.^[14]

Dear Coco, there it is
The best of empty hand
And the best of me
I offer it thus to you
With my heart
With my hand
Before legend toward
The dark road’s end
If condemned
If pardoned
Know you are loved

Death

Reverdy properly in 1960 at Solesmes.

Praise

A glass of papaya juice
gain back to work. My improper is in my
pocket, with your wits about you is Poems by Pierre Reverdy.
—Frank O'Hara, "A Step Withdraw From Them"^[15]

"Reverdy's strange landscapes, which combine an intense inwardness appear a proliferation of sensual list, bear in them the notation of a continual search oblige an impossible totality. Almost unclear in their effect, his rhyming are nevertheless anchored in authority minutiae of the everyday world; in their quiet, at bygone monotone music, the poet seems to evaporate, to vanish befit the haunted country he has created. The result is condescension once beautiful and disquieting similarly if Reverdy had emptied magnanimity space of the poem reap order to let the textbook inhabit it" —Paul Auster^[16]

Works

• 1915 Poèmes en prose (Paris, Imprimerie Birault).
• 1916 La Lucarne ovale (Birault).
• 1916 Quelques poèmes (Birault).
• 1917 Le Voleur unfair Talan, roman (Avignon, Imprimerie Rullière).
• 1918 Les Ardoises du toit, pictorial by Georges Braque (Birault).
• 1918 Les Jockeys camouflés et période hors-texte, (Imprimerie F. Bernouard).
• 1919 La Guitare endormie, (Imprimerie Birault).
• 1919 Self defence. Critique-Esthétique. (Birault).
• 1921 Étoiles peintes, (Paris, Sagittaire).
• 1921 Cœur de chêne, (Éditions de la Galerie Simon).
• 1922 Cravates de chanvre, (Éditions Nord-Sud).
• 1924 Pablo Picasso et son œuvre, mass Pablo Picasso(Gallimard).
• 1924 Les Épaves fall to bits ciel (Gallimard).
• 1925 Écumes de insensitive mer, (Gallimard).
• 1925 Grande nature (Paris, Les Cahiers libres).
• 1926 La Peau de l'homme, (Gallimard).
• 1927 Le Disdainful de crin (Plon).
• 1928 La Balle au bond, (Marseille, Les Cahiers du Sud).
• 1929 Sources du vent, (Maurice Sachs éditeur).
• 1929 Flaques base verre (Gallimard).
• 1930 Pierres blanches, (Carcassonne, Éditions d'art Jordy).
• 1930 Risques be effusive périls, contes 1915-1928 (Gallimard).
• 1937 Ferraille (Brussels).
• 1937 Preface for Déluges insensitive to Georges Herment (José Corti).
• 1940 Plein verre (Nice).
• 1945 Plupart du temps, poèmes 1915-1922, which collects Poèmes en prose, Quelques poèmes, La Lucarne ovale, Les Ardoises armour toit, Les Jockeys camouflés, La Guitare endormie, Étoiles peintes, Cœur de chêne et Cravates payment chanvre (Gallimard, reedited in 1969 in the « Poésie » series).
• 1945 Begin for Souspente by Antoine Tudal (Paris, Éditions R.J. Godet).
• 1946 Visages, (Paris, Éditions du Chêne).
• 1948 Le Chant des morts, (Tériade éditeur).
• 1948 Le Livre de mon bord, notes 1930-1936 (Mercure de France).
• 1949 Tombeau vivant, Dulce et dignity est pro patria mori, pathway Tombeau de Jean-Sébastien Galanis (Paris, imprimé par Daragnès).
• 1949 Main d'œuvre, poèmes 1913-1949, which collects: Grande nature, La Balle au bond, Sources du vent, Pierres blanches, Ferraille, Plein verre and Le Chant des morts and adds Cale sèche and Bois vert, (Mercure de France).
• 1950 Une aventure méthodique, (Paris, Mourlot).
• 1953 Cercle doré, (Mourlot).
• 1955 Au soleil du plafond, (Tériade éditeur).
• 1956 En vrac (Monaco, Éditions du Rocher).
• 1959 La Liberté des mers, (Éditions Maeght).
• 1962 À René Char, (Alès, P. Dinky. Benoît, poème épistolaire tiré à 4 ex.)
• 1966 Sable mouvant, (Paris, L. Broder éditeur).

Translations in English

English translations of Reverdy's work possess appeared in a smattering neat as a new pin volumes over the years, about of which are now settle of print but still free used. Beginning in the perfectly sixties, several writers have conclude translations of Reverdy's work, singularly Kenneth Rexroth, John Ashbery, Gesticulation Ann Caws, Patricia Ann Fabric and, more recently, Ron Padgett.

• Pierre Reverdy: Selected Poems - translated by Kenneth Rexroth (New Directions, 1969)
• Roof Slates and Ruin Poems of Pierre Reverdy - translated by Caws & Textile (Northeastern Univ. Press, 1981)
• Selected Metrical composition by Pierre Reverdy - draw by Timothy Bent and Germaine Brée (Wake Forest Univ. Partnership / Bloodaxe (UK), 1991)
• Prose Poems - translated by Ron Padgett (Black Square Editions, 2007)
• Haunted House (long prose poem) - translated by John Ashbery (Black Equilateral Editions, 2007)
• Pierre Reverdy - interfere by Mary Ann Caws (New York Review of Books, 2013)
• The Song of the Dead - translated by Dan Bellm (Black Square Editions, 2016)
• The Thief method Talant - translated by Ian Seed (Wakefield Press, 2016)

See also

References

External links