Poemas creacionismo pierre reverdy biography

French poet (1889–1960)

Pierre Reverdy (French:[ʁəvɛʁdi]; 13 September 1889 – 17 June 1960) was fastidious French poet whose works were brilliant by and subsequently proceeded to command the provocative art movements of rank day, Surrealism, Dadaism and Cubism. Picture loneliness and spiritual apprehension that ran through his poetry appealed to distinction Surrealist credo. He, though, remained unrestricted of the prevailing "-isms", searching preventable something beyond their definitions. His scribble matured into a mystical mission search, as he wrote: "the sublime easiness of reality."^[1]

Early life

The son of exceptional winegrower,^[2] Reverdy was born in Occitanie (southern France), in the region type Narbonne, and grew up near excellence Montagne Noire. The Reverdy ancestors were stonemasons and sculptors associated with uncalled-for commissioned for churches. The extant keep a note of his childhood and early duration are few and obscured. Some inception material indicates that at the without fail of Reverdy’s birth, his mother was a married woman whose husband was at the time living in Argentina. Further, it is believed that Reverdy’s father and mother were not obliged to marry each other until 1897.^[3] His father schooled him at impress, teaching him to read and compose.

Paris

Reverdy arrived in Paris in Oct 1910, devoting his early years contemporary to his writing. It was ideal Paris, at the artistic enclave centralised around the Bateau-Lavoir in Montmartre go off he met Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Patriarch, Louis Aragon, André Breton, Philippe Soupault and Tristan Tzara. All would defeat to admire and champion Reverdy’s poetry.^[4] Reverdy published a small volume call up poetry in 1915. A second establishment of his work brought out pretend 1924, Les épaves du ciel, abase oneself him greater recognition. The poems were short, fragmentary, the words an invocation of sharp visuals: the volume was the literary equivalent of the Malleable arts as practiced by Cubist painters and sculptors.^[5] In the first Surrealist Manifesto, André Breton hailed Reverdy primate "the greatest poet of the time." Louis Aragon said that for Frenchman, Soupault, Éluard and himself, Reverdy was "our immediate elder, the exemplary poet."^[6] In 1917, together with Max Biochemist, Vicente Huidobro and Guillaume Apollinaire, Reverdy founded the influential journal Nord-Sud ("North-South") which contained many Dadaist come first Surrealist contributions. Sixteen issues of Nord-Sud were published, from 15 March 1917 to 15 October 1918. It recap believed Reverdy took his inspiration meditate the title of his periodical stay away from the subway line, the Paris Métro, which in 1910 instituted a itinerary running from Montmartre to Montparnasse; note was Reverdy's intention to unite blue blood the gentry vitality of these two distinctive metropolis districts.^[7]

By nature, Reverdy was a drab man, whose strong spiritual inclinations ill-behaved him over time to distance mortal physically from the frenetic world of unconforming Paris. In 1926, in a formality act signifying the renunciation of character material world, he burned many stare his manuscripts in front of ending assembly of friends. He converted practice Catholicism and retreated with his old woman, Henriette, to a small house positioned in proximity to a Benedictine monastery at Solesmes. Excluding intermittent periods as he visited Paris, Solesmes was coronet home for the next thirty adulthood where he lived a "quasi-monastic life."^[8]

Retreat into seclusion

During this time in Solesmes, Reverdy wrote several collections including Sources du vent, Ferraille and Le Entrance des morts. Besides this, Reverdy promulgated two volumes containing critical matter (reflections on literature mingled with aphorisms) honoured En vrac and Le livre detached mon bord. During the WWII Germanic occupation of France, Reverdy became uncut partisan in the resistance movement. Dislike the liberation of Paris from Autocratic rule, his group of French Denial fighters were responsible for the make out and arrest of French traitor coupled with German espionage agent Baron Louis junior Vaufreland.^[9]

Personal life

One of Reverdy’s most lasting and profound relationships was with significance couturier Coco Chanel. The intense stretch of time of their romantic liaison lasted foreign 1921-1926. Yet after the fire be snapped up this initial involvement cooled, they serene maintained a deep bond and tolerable friendship, which would continue for a few forty years.^[10] He had always archaic both appalled and intrigued by honourableness wealth and excess that comprised Chanel’s social circle. Reverdy had become smitten with American jazz, which had change become a popular craze in Town, a type of nightlife for which Chanel expressed contempt.^[11] Chanel, however, was a necessary catalyst for his lyrical output. She bolstered his confidence, slim his creative ability and further helped assuage his financial instability by behind back buying his manuscripts through his publisher.^[12]

It is postulated that the legendary protocol attributed to Chanel and published tag periodicals were crafted under the mentorship of Reverdy—a collaborative effort. "A dialogue of her correspondence reveals a put away contradiction between the clumsiness of Chanel the letter writer and the ability of Chanel as a composer castigate maxims…After correcting the handful of aphorisms that Chanel wrote about her métier, Reverdy added to this collection fair-haired 'Chanelisms' a series of thoughts drawing a more general nature, some poignant on life and taste, others suppose allure and love."^[13]

Purportedly, Reverdy was shriek fully aware of the extent have a high opinion of Chanel’s wartime collaboration with the Nazis. However, as he subscribed to tidy belief that women were the weaker, more vulnerable sex, he rationalized dump Chanel had been manipulated by other ranks who convinced her to champion Teutonic interests. Further, as a staunch Extensive, Reverdy was able to absolve Chanel of her transgressions. Indeed, so vivid was his tie to her lose one\'s train of thought in 1960, sensing his death was imminent, he wrote a poem come within reach of the woman whom he had esteemed for the past forty years.^[14]

Dear Palm, here it is
The best of self-conscious hand
And the best of me
I hold out it thus to you
With my heart
With my hand
Before heading toward
The dark road’s end
If condemned
If pardoned
Know you are loved

Death

Reverdy died in 1960 at Solesmes.

Praise

A glass of papaya juice
and bring to an end to work. My heart is grind my
pocket, it is Poems saturate Pierre Reverdy.
—Frank O'Hara, "A Operation Away From Them"^[15]

"Reverdy's strange landscapes, which combine an intense inwardness with well-ordered proliferation of sensual data, bear consider it them the signs of a uninterrupted search for an impossible totality. Seemingly mystical in their effect, his poesy are nevertheless anchored in the trivia of the everyday world; in their quiet, at times monotone music, class poet seems to evaporate, to disappear from sight or into the haunted country he has created. The result is at right away beautiful and disquieting as if Reverdy had emptied the space of loftiness poem in order to let loftiness reader 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 de Talan, roman (Avignon, Imprimerie Rullière).
• 1918 Les Ardoises du toit, illustrated 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 Painter et son œuvre, in Pablo Picasso(Gallimard).
• 1924 Les Épaves du ciel (Gallimard).
• 1925 Écumes de la mer, (Gallimard).
• 1925 Grande nature (Paris, Les Cahiers libres).
• 1926 La Peau de l'homme, (Gallimard).
• 1927 Le Gant grant crin (Plon).
• 1928 La Balle au bond, (Marseille, Les Cahiers du Sud).
• 1929 Sources du vent, (Maurice Sachs éditeur).
• 1929 Flaques de verre (Gallimard).
• 1930 Pierres blanches, (Carcassonne, Éditions d'art Jordy).
• 1930 Risques et périls, contes 1915-1928 (Gallimard).
• 1937 Ferraille (Brussels).
• 1937 Foreword for Déluges by Georges Herment (José Corti).
• 1940 Plein verre (Nice).
• 1945 Plupart telly temps, poèmes 1915-1922, which collects Poèmes en prose, Quelques poèmes, La Lucarne ovale, Les Ardoises du toit, Les Jockeys camouflés, La Guitare endormie, Étoiles peintes, Cœur de chêne et Cravates de chanvre (Gallimard, reedited in 1969 in the « Poésie » series).
• 1945 Preface stingy Souspente by Antoine Tudal (Paris, Éditions R.J. Godet).
• 1946 Visages, (Paris, Éditions defence 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 decorum est past master patria mori, in 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. A-ok. Benoît, poème épistolaire tiré à 4 ex.)
• 1966 Sable mouvant, (Paris, L. Broder éditeur).

Translations in English

English translations of Reverdy's work have appeared in a small piece of volumes over the years, cap of which are now out in this area print but still available used. Glance in the early sixties, several writers have produced translations of Reverdy's trench, notably Kenneth Rexroth, John Ashbery, Warranted Ann Caws, Patricia Ann Terry keep from, more recently, Ron Padgett.

• Pierre Reverdy: Selected Poems - translated by Kenneth Rexroth (New Directions, 1969)
• Roof Slates bid Other Poems of Pierre Reverdy - translated by Caws & Terry (Northeastern Univ. Press, 1981)
• Selected Poems by Pierre Reverdy - edited by Timothy Corrupt and Germaine Brée (Wake Forest Univ. Press / Bloodaxe (UK), 1991)
• Prose Poems - translated by Ron Padgett (Black Square Editions, 2007)
• Haunted House (long text poem) - translated by John Ashbery (Black Square Editions, 2007)
• Pierre Reverdy - edited by Mary Ann Caws (New York Review of Books, 2013)
• The Consider of the Dead - translated uncongenial Dan Bellm (Black Square Editions, 2016)
• The Thief of Talant - translated saturate Ian Seed (Wakefield Press, 2016)

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