CRITICISM – The author pays a final tribute, in the form of a “tomb”, to his companion Anne.
“How much life emerges 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. could we read a few months ago in the presentation of My more-than-queenan anthology of poems by Bernard Chambaz linked to his companion Anne, over forty years. Since then, Anne has passed away, devastated by illness.
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He pays him a final tribute, in the form of a “tomb”, in Without knowing where the sled will stoplyrical testimony of his last two years of a long life together. Short poems, made of flashes, chiaroscuros, verses as if whispered on the edge of immodesty and sorrow. In particular those which form the epilogue, dated July 26, 2023: “A life collapsed like/ an old section of wall/ in the great engulfment of the universe/ even if we are/ still/ for a few minutes / to each other mysteriously linked/…
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