Claude Minière

Claude Minière (born October 25, 1938 in Paris ) is a French poet and essayist.

Minières initially worked as a teacher in the Beauce. His first writings appeared in the magazine Tel Quel. After studying political science, he first worked at IRCAM , then at the French Ministry of Culture and taught at the Écoles des Beaux-Arts for five years .

As a poet, Minière belongs to the French avant-garde. A connoisseur of contemporary visual art, he published an overview of 30 years of French art history in 1995 under the title L'art en France 1965-1995 .

Minière also emerged as translator for Frank O'Hara , Friedrich Hölderlin and Ezra Pound . From the latter he translated with Margaret Tunstill Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, A Memoir and Treatise on Harmony , in 2006 he published the essay Pound caractère chinois about him .

Works

• L'Application des lectrices aux champs , 1968
• Vita nova , 1978
• Glamor , 1979
• La Mort des héros (with Mathias Pérez ), 1983
• Difficulté passagère , 1987
• L'Hommage à Lord Chandos (with Valère Novarina ), 1990
• Course libre (with Claude Viallat ), 1990
• De la nature 1990
• La Chambre bouleversée , 1992
• Chroniques (with Toni Grand ), 1992
• Traité de tactique et de poétique (with Daniel Dezeuze ), 1994
• L'Art en France , 1995
• Etudes de nuages (with Jacques Barry ), 1998
• La Trame d'Or , 1999
• Lucrèce , 1999
• Claude Viallat , 1999
• Le Temps est un dieu dérangé , 2000
• Balthus , 2000
• Hymn (with Djamel Meskache ), 2003
• Perfection , 2005
• Pound caractère chinois , 2006