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André Velter

Etre Ailleurs

  • 1 Clowns pour clowns | Translations: de
  • 2 Courir le monde | Translations: de
  • 3 Etre Ailleurs | Translations: de
  • 4 Sans trop forcer | Translations: de
Language: french
Translations: german (Anderswo sein)
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Etre Ailleurs

Je n’ai guère le goût des cimetières
ni des ossements célèbres du Pète Lachaise,
de Montmartre ou du Montparnasse ;
à la mise en terre et aux tombes
j’ai toujours préféré les cendres jetées au vent.
Mais dans Paris vagabondant, j’aime qu’il y ait
des présences ravivées sur les murs :
Bossuet à mi-pente de la rue Sainte-Anne,
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin inconscient de naître quasiment rue Molière
comme Arouet d’expirer quai Voltaire...

Entre toutes les plaques pourtant celle qui m’enchante
décore une triste façade rue de Richelieu :
Ici Stendhal écrivit les Promenades dans Rome.

                                                              Kovalam, 7 janvier 2003.

© André Velter
From: unpublished
Audio production: Printemps des Poètes 2006
Categories: cities & urban life, architecture & design, literature & reading

Translations:

Language: german

Anderswo sein

Friedhöfe interessieren mich wenig,
die berühmten Gebeine vom Père-Lachaise,
von Montmartre oder Montparnasse;
Lieber als Beerdigungen und Gräbern
war mir immer die in den Wind gestreute Asche.
Aber beim Schlendern durch Paris gefällt mir, daß Gestalten
Auf Mauern zu neuem Leben erwachen:
Bossuet auf halber Höhe der Rue Sainte-Anne,
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, neu geboren in der Rue Molière, ohne es zu wissen,
wie Arouet nichts weiß von seinem Tod am Quai Voltaire...

Am meisten entzückt mich aber von allen Schildern
jenes an einer tristen Fassade in der Rue Richelieu:
Hier schrieb Stendhal die Spaziergänge durch Rom

                             Kovalam, 7. Januar 2oo3

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André Velter

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* 01.02.1945, Signy l'Abbaye dans les Ardennes, France
lives in: , France

André Velter was born in 1945 in Signy l’Abbaye in Ardennes, France. He published his first book Aisha, with Serge Sautreau.

André Velter splits his time between extensive trips (Afghanistan, India, Tibet) and giving voice to poems from all over the world. On the French radio station France-Culture, he created Poésie sur Parole. He also hosted Agora (from 1995 to 1998), Poésie Studio (from 1997 to 1999), and les Poétiques, recorderd monthly in front of a live audience at the Théatre du Rond-Point in Paris, with Claude Guerre (from 1995 to 1999). Orphée Studio, contemporary poetry read out loud, presented a “livre-témoignage” on the experience of Poétiques, which was published as part of the collectioin Poésie/Gallimard. Velter’s literary reviews that appear in the French newspaper Le Monde are focused mainly on the East. He is the editor of the collection Poésie/Gallimard, l’arbalète, and the journal Caravanes published by Phébus. All of his poetic works are dedicated to “breathing, revolt, savge love, and to physical and mental jubilation.” He is equally invested in the oral tranmission of words, and attempts to invent a new orality by working regularly with performers, actors, and musicians of various polyphonies.

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He won the Goncourt/ Poésie prize in 1996.

Publications
  • Aisha

    Editions Gallimard, 1966

  • Du prisme noir

    Illustrations de Rebeyrolle

    Fata Morgana, 1971

  • De la déception pure, manifeste froid

    Ouvrage collectif (Sautreau, Velter, Bailly, Buin)

    10/18, 1973

  • Dar-I-Nûr

    Nulle part, 1983

  • Velickovic, l´épouvante et le vent

    Fata Morgana, 1987

  • L´Enfer et les fleurs

    Illustrations de Saura

    Fata Morgana, 1988

  • Autoportraits

    Paroles d´Aube, 1991

  • Du Gange à Zanzibar

    Editions Gallimard, 1993

  • Ouvrir le chant

    Le Castor astral/Les Ecrits des Forges, 1994

  • Passage en force (1971-1974)

    Le Castor astral/Les Ecrits des Forges, 1994

  • Le Haut Pays

    Editions Gallimard, 1995

  • Etapes brûlées (1974-1978)

    Le Castor astral/Les Ecrits des Forges, 1996

  • Le septième sommet

    Poèmes pour Chantal Mauduit

    Gallimard, 1998

  • La vie en dansant

    Editions Gallimard, 2000

  • Zingaro suite équestre

    Folio/Gallimard, 2000

  • L´amour extrême

    Poèmes pour Chantal Mauduit

    Gallimard, 2000

  • Gherasim Luca, Passio-passionnément

    Jean-Michel Place, 2001

  • Une autre altitude

    poèmes pour Chantal Mauduit

    Paris: Gallimard, 2001

  • L'Arbre-Seul

    Poésie

    Paris: Gallimard, 2001

  • La faute à qui Velter, Rouzeau

    CD

    Thélème, 2004

  • Au cabaret de l´éphémère

    Gallimard, 2005

  • Le chant des villes

    présenté par André Velter et Jean-Claude Perrier

    Mercure de France, 2006

  • Midi à toutes les portes

    Gallimard, 2007

  • Extases

    avec Ernest Pignon-Ernest

    Gallimard, 2008

  • Tant de soleils dans le sang

    Livre-DVD avec Pedro Soler & sept poèmes-tracts avec Ernest Pignon-Ernest

    Alphabet de l´espace, 2008

  • Paseo Grande

    Livre-récital avec Olivier Deck et sept poèmes-talismans avec Antonio Segui

    Gallimard, 2011

Awards
  • 1990 Prix Mallarmé

  • 1996 Goncourt/ Poésie

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