Michèle Métail

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Michèle Métail (born June 8, 1950 in Paris ) is a French poet.

Life

Michèle Métail studied German and did her doctorate with a study on older Chinese poetry. The interest in the lyrical form shaped her work from then on. Until 1998 she belonged to the Oulipo movement (L 'Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle - workshop of potential literature), which experiments with form constraints. As a guest of the Berlin artist program of the DAAD 2001, she wrote fragmentary snapshots of the city of Berlin in photo format 10 × 15 (10 lines of 15 letters), translated into German by Elfriede Czurda as 10 × 17 ( Walking and Writing. Memory Inventory ). These diary-like sketches are juxtaposed with photos from other places. Image and text would create a kind of polyphony.

The group “Les arts contigus” (“The related arts”), which she founded with Louis Roquin, is also concerned with the coming together of different forms of expression.

Since 1973, Métail has also published her poems orally in interdisciplinary readings. Oral lecture is the final stage of creation, “throwing the word into space” as “the highest form of writing”. The “Poème infini” is a continued expression of this, a reflection on language.

In autumn 2002 Métail received a scholarship at the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf . In the summer semester of 2005, she was the Samuel Fischer visiting professor for literature at the Peter Szondi Institute of the Free University of Berlin . She lives in Lasalle in the Gard department .

Works (selection)

  • Writing the Real: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary French Poetry (translated by Susan Wicks ). Enitharmon Press, 2015.
  • La route de cinq pieds . 2009
    • Path. five feet wide . From the Franz. By Ulrike Draesner and the author. Vienna: Ed. Correspondence, 2009
  • L'un l'autre, esperluette; précédé par un Entretien avec Kristell Loquet et Jean-Luc Parant L'un, l'autre: esperluette . 2008
  • 2888 Danube verses from an endless poem: with four photos on the Danube . Vienna: Ed. Correspondence, 2006, ISBN 3-902113-43-X
  • Voyage au pays de Shu: anthology: journal 1170-1998 . 2004
  • Matin bleu . 2003
  • Go and write . From the Franz. By Elfriede Czurda. Nachw. By Herbert Wiesner. Berlin: DAAD, Berlin Artists Program, 2002
  • Toponyms: Berlin: dédale, cadastre, jumelage, panorama . 2002
  • La ville, de la ville: plan parcellaire . 2001
  • 64 poems du ciel et de la terre . 2000
  • Les horizons du sol: panorama . 1999
  • La carte de la sphère armillaire de Su Hui: un poème chinois à "lecture retournée" du IVe siècle . 1998
  • Cent pour cent . 1998
  • Filigree: poèmes du vide . 1986
  • Cinquante poèmes oscillatoires . 1986
  • Cinquante poèmes corpusculaires: essai de poésie minimal . 1986

literature

  • Ulrike Draesner: “The grammar of connections. 2888 verses down the Danube, with Michèle Métail “, in: read beautiful women. About Ingeborg Bachmann, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Friederike Mayröcker, Virginia Woolf and many others , table of contents Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-630-62121-0 , pp. 175–188.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] , list of birthdays
  2. ↑ a b c Michèle Métail , at the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin , 2003
  3. ↑ Michèle Métail and Louis Roquin , at literaturlana, April 15, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Métail, Michèle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French poet
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris