Travel stories, novels, history or art books, sporting tributes, portraits… Bernard Chambaz also has another string to his bow, very sensitive and vibrant: poetry. This is what this superb anthology reminds us, spanning forty years, concocted by himself, on the theme of passionate love, that of his companion Anne, with whom he shared his life for more than 'a half-century.
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As Sylvain Prudhomme says in his preface:
“How much life surfaces everywhere, irrigating each verse, filling each word. Life captured in its moments of greatest dazzlingness, throughout the years, in an uninterrupted lookout for joys as well as sorrows, moments of grace as well as vacillations. »
Passing through Paris, Rome, Sicily, Vladivostok, Colorado or the Sea of Marmara, Chambaz sings of the loved one, quoting Verlaine, Apollinaire, Clément Marot, Louise Labé, evoking Ronsard, William Carlos Williams, Bukowski.
Passing through Paris, Rome, Sicily, Vladivostok, Colorado or the Sea of Marmara, Chambaz sings of the loved one, quoting Verlaine, Apollinaire...
Some images are striking, some verses…
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