François Charron

[Les statues pleurent sur la solidité]

Language: french

Translations: german ([Die Statuen beweinen die Festigkeit die es nicht gibt])

[Les statues pleurent sur la solidité]

Les statues pleurent sur la solidité qui n'existe pas les
âmes sont dangereuses.

Je sens ce que je sens à quoi sert le hasard sinon à lire les
étoiles.

Même le feu s'imagine qu'un fantôme éclatant se présenta à
ma vue alors je recule.

L'obscurité pointe vers la coupure à tel point que mon cœur
pense trou dans une feuille.

On aurait voulu réchauffer les arbres on se dépouille on
sort regarder sa souffrance dans la matière.

Il est temps d'allumer sa lampe avec une douceur
rassurante et aller vers la lumière même si la lumière
est un mythe

François Charron

photo © Union des écrivains et des écrivaines québécois

* 22.02.1952, Longueuil, Quebec, Canada
lives in: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

François Charron, poet and essayist, completed an MA in literary studies at the University of Quebec at Montreal in 1979. He taught at Cégep Montmorency in Laval from 1973 to 1977, and has devoted himself entirely to literature ever since.

Besides his numerous books published since 1972, he has been read in various French-language magazines, such as, in Quebec, Les Herbes rouges, Ellipse, Estuaire, Éther, Hobo-Québec, Liberté, and Possibles; in France, in Change, Cheval d’attaque and Actuel; in Belgium, in Cistre. He was also on the editorial board of the magazines Stratégie (1971-1974) and Chronique (1976-1977).

Winner of the 'Prix Émile-Nelligan' in 1979 for his collection Blessures and the 'Prix Canada-Belgique' in 1982 for the body of his work, he also received the 'Grand Prix du Festival international de Poésie' for his book La beauté des visages ne pèse pas sur la terre. He earned the 'Grand Prix de poésie du Journal de Montréal' for L’Intraduisible amour in 1992. In 2007, he was awarded the 'Prix de poésie Alain-Grandbois' from the Académie des lettres du Québec for this collection Ce qui nous abandonne. François Charron has been a member of the Union des écrivaines et des écrivains québécois since 1980, and was elected to its board of directors in November 1998.

François Charron’s writing begins from visual images rather than rhetorical figures. He works to render emotions in a stripped-down fashion, while ceaselessly creating an impression of tension between life, the visible world and a metaphysical approach to reality. His poetry is recognizable by its questioning of the body, language, time, identity, history and community. His lyricism could be called fleeting, since he speaks to us of an unfinished and unfinishable world that opens to the experience of being.

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