André Velter
In 1963, he met the poet Serge Sautreau, co-founder of the magazine Nulle Part, in Paris. This was the beginning of a shared writing style, immediately hailed by Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, with the publication of his first poems in Les Temps Modernes, before the publication of Aisha1 by Gallimard in 1966, which Alain Jouffroy states in his preface is “one of the rare events in poetry written in French since 1945”.
Sunday 22 October 2017
To André Velter, his letters are notes that fly away, his words, the music of a forgotten time, past, present or future, I am not so sure anymore. A bell chimes in the distance, at night, in a forgotten countryside. It is André Velter’s music calling to us, awakening our numb soul, his words, his inevitable way of reading them, gives meaning to what is carefully hidden. André Velter, the awakener of souls. In André Velter, hidden deep inside, is his most beautiful poem, which he will never write or tell us.
Lucas
