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"Poetry is torn
between the desire for a land which does not exist and the need for a
common ground, between its two contradictory genii: that somewhere
else and the commonplace".
J.M.Maulpoix
«
personal pages »
Such an expression for he who is concerned with writing may seem rather
weird.
Here one will thus find, on top of the expected
answers to the queries about the author (biography,
bibliography, and so on …), a few extracts of several
styles (texts not yet gathered in a volume, drafts, travel
sketch-books, critical essays) and above all the presence of
a few fellow travellers (poets, prose writers, painters …)
: a subjective, mobile, personal or impersonal anthology …
The corner of a canvas wherefrom threads draw towards other lines and other
voices, may be the shelves of an imaginary bookcase or the beams of an imaginary
hive.
Website story : Zounds!
Why did he have to get involved in this business? Notes
on Internet and writing …
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essays
What about poetry ?
French
Poetry since 1950
: Dwelling, Figuring,
Settling, Articulating,
Aggravating (translation from the original French by Catherine Wieder)
About lyricism : a critical essay
published in March 2000, José Corti Publisher, in the series « Reading, writing … », about 430 p.
University
and poetry today in
France
Mallarmé :
a
portrait of the poet as a spider
Henri Michaux's distance
and nearness
poetry
links
A
few poems on electrato.com
A
few poems of Jean-Michel Maulpoix
on the website "The
other Voices International Project".
"The Other
Voices International Project is a cyber-anthology that erases the
boundaries of nations, ethnicities, religions, cultures, and age
to bring you some of the world's best poetry. No poetry or art is
used in this project unless permission has been granted by the
artist or his/her estate."
Another presentation on Double
room, journal of prose poetry
A
matter of blue on the webside of the
Academy of American poets
Poetry
NZ 23 : Comment and poetry from France
"Le
poète perplexe", in World literature today
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Recently
published
books
- The Inkwell's Monologue,
translated by Dawn Cornelio from unpublished poetry, VVV Editions
VVV, Halifax, 2005
- A Matter of Blue,
translated by Dawn Cornelio from Jean-Michel Maulpoix's Une
histoire de bleu, Boa Editions, Rochester, 2005.
A Matter of
Blue has gone through
multiple French printings and is noted poet, essayist, and critic
Jean-Michel Maulpoix's most publicly and critically acclaimed book.
Throughout the collection, prose poems and blank verse operate on a
recognizable, accessible level, offering a narrative voice
struggling for understanding in a postmodern, sometimes desolate
world. "In A Matter of Blue Jean-Michel Maulpoix
uses the color blue to encompass melancholy and nostalgia, but also
the joy and hope inherent in life. Even if the gods' presence
can no longer be taken for granted, blue still remains to accompany
us in our daily lives, although it may suffer from fatigue and be
unsure of its own strength." --Dawn Cornelio from the
translator's introduction.
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Available editions:
Cloth
ISBN: 1-929918-66-6
Price: $22.00
Publishing Date: July 2005
Paperback
ISBN: 1-929918-67-4
Price: $15.95
Publishing Date: July 2005
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Poetry magazine
The combined October-November issue of
POETRY Magazine, released 28th September 2000,
is a special triple-size number devoted to contemporary poetry in French by 39
poets, some of whom will be appearing in English for the first time. Co-edited with noted critic and essayist John Taylor and National Book Award winning poet Marilyn Hacker, the issue begins with Julien Gracq and other writers who began publishing early in the 20th
century, and covers the latter half of the
century, concluding with younger poets such as Jean-Michel Maulpoix and Pascalle Monnier. The contents are uniquely broad in that the editors considered important recent work by all Francophone
poets, regardless of whether the author lives in France or is a French
citizen.
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