Jean Daive
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Jean Daive is a poet and translator. He is the author of novels, collections of poetry and has translated work by Paul Celan
and Robert Creeley
among others.
He has edited encyclopedias, worked as a radio journalist and producer with France Culture, and has edited three magazines: fragment (1970–73), fig. (1989–91), and FIN (1999–2006). His first book, Décimale blanche (Mercure de France, 1967) was translated into German by Paul Celan, and into English by Cid Corman
.
Publishing since the 1960s and today known as one of the important French avant-garde poets, Daive's work is an investigation alternating between poetry, narration and reflective prose. He has published several interrelated volumes, including a sequence with the general title Narration d'équilibre (1982–90) and the prose series, La Condition d'infini (1995-97: 7 volumes, of which Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan, published in English in 2009, is volume 5).
According to Peter France, Daive's tense, elliptical poems explore the difficulties of existence in an enigmatic world.
Also a photographer, Daive chairs the Centre international de poésie de Marseille.
Poetry
Novels and récits
Other texts
Translations
Interviews
Paul Celan
Paul Celan was a poet and translator...
and Robert Creeley
Robert Creeley
Robert Creeley was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. He served as the Samuel P...
among others.
He has edited encyclopedias, worked as a radio journalist and producer with France Culture, and has edited three magazines: fragment (1970–73), fig. (1989–91), and FIN (1999–2006). His first book, Décimale blanche (Mercure de France, 1967) was translated into German by Paul Celan, and into English by Cid Corman
Cid Corman
Cid Corman was an American poet, translator and editor, most notably of Origin, who was a key figure in the history of American poetry in the second half of the 20th century.-Early life and writing:...
.
Life and work
Jean Daive was born in Bon-Secours, a section of the city of Péruwelz located in Wallonia, a predominantly French speaking southern region of Belgium and part of the province of Hainaut. Having been an encyclopedist for seventeen years, he worked on various radio programs for France Culture from 1975 until 2009.Publishing since the 1960s and today known as one of the important French avant-garde poets, Daive's work is an investigation alternating between poetry, narration and reflective prose. He has published several interrelated volumes, including a sequence with the general title Narration d'équilibre (1982–90) and the prose series, La Condition d'infini (1995-97: 7 volumes, of which Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan, published in English in 2009, is volume 5).
According to Peter France, Daive's tense, elliptical poems explore the difficulties of existence in an enigmatic world.
Also a photographer, Daive chairs the Centre international de poésie de Marseille.
Publications
In English- White Decimal (tr. C. Corman), Origin, 1969
- A Lesson in Music (tr. Julie Kalendek), Providence, RI: Burning DeckBurning Deck PressBurning Deck is a small press specializing in the publication of experimental poetry and prose. Burning Deck was founded by the writers Keith Waldrop and Rosmarie Waldrop in 1961.-Overview:...
, 1992 - Anne-Marie AlbiachAnne-Marie AlbiachAnne-Marie Albiach is a contemporary French poet and translator.-Overview:Anne-Marie Albiach's poetry is characterized by, among other things, an inventive use of spacing on the printed page...
, A Discursive, Space: Interviews with Jean Daive tr. Norma ColeNorma ColeNorma Cole is a contemporary American poet, visual artist, and frequent translator from the French. A member of the circle of poets around Robert Duncan in the '80s, and a fellow traveler of San Francisco's language poets, Cole is also allied with contemporary French poets.-Life and work:A...
. (Duration Press, 1999). - Under The Dome: Walks with Paul Celan (tr. Rosmarie WaldropRosmarie WaldropRosmarie Waldrop is a contemporary American poet, translator and publisher. Born in Germany, she has lived in the United States since 1958. She has lived in Providence, Rhode Island since the late 1960s...
), Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 2009.- Work has appeared in Auster, PaulPaul AusterPaul Benjamin Auster is an American author known for works blending absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as The New York Trilogy , Moon Palace , The Music of Chance , The Book of Illusions and The Brooklyn Follies...
, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN 0-394-52197-8 - Work has also apppeared in magazines including "Modern Poetry in Translation", "Avec", "New Directions 44", "Serie d’Ecriture 3".
- Work has appeared in Auster, Paul
Poetry
- Décimale Blanche (1967)
- Fut Bâti (1973)
- L'Absolu reptilien (1975)
- N, M, U (1975)
- Le Cri-cerveau (1977)
- Narration d'équilibre 1 : Antériorité du scandale, 2 : « Sllt », 3 : Vingt-quatre images seconde (1982)
- Un transitif (1984)
- Narration d'équilibre 4 : W (1985)
- Narration d'équilibre 5 : America domino (1987)
- Narration d'équilibre 6 : Alphabet, 7 : Une Leçon de musique, 8 : Grammaire, 9 : Suivez l'enfant (1990),
- Trilogie du temps 1 : Objet bougé (1999)
- Trilogie du temps 2 : Le Retour passeur (2000)
- Trilogie du temps 3 : Les Axes de la terre (2001)
- Une Femme de quelques vies (2009)
Novels and récits
- Le Jeu des séries scéniques (1975)
- 1, 2, de la série non aperçue (1975)
- La Condition d'infini 1 : Un Trouble (1995)
- La Condition d'infini 2 : Le Jardin d'hiver, 3 : La Maison des blocs tombés, 4 : Le Mur d'or (1995)
- La Condition d'infini 5 : Sous la coupole (1996)
- L'Autoportrait aux dormeuses (2000)
- Le Grand Incendie de l'Homme (2007)
Other texts
- Tapiès répliquer (1981)
- Si la neige devenait plus blanche(1985), avec Jean-Michel Alberola
- Propositions d'été induites par des énoncés d'hiver (1989)
Translations
- Paul CelanPaul CelanPaul Celan was a poet and translator...
, Strette & autres poèmes (1970) - Robert CreeleyRobert CreeleyRobert Creeley was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. He served as the Samuel P...
, La Fin (1997) - Johannes Poethen, L'Espace d'un jeu (1998)
Interviews
- Anne-Marie AlbiachAnne-Marie AlbiachAnne-Marie Albiach is a contemporary French poet and translator.-Overview:Anne-Marie Albiach's poetry is characterized by, among other things, an inventive use of spacing on the printed page...
, L'exact réel (2006)
Further reading
- « Dossier Jean Daive », Cahier critique de poésie, n° 14, novembre 2007.
- Hamacher, WernerWerner HamacherWerner Hamacher is a German literary critic and theorist influenced by deconstruction. Hamacher studied philosophy, comparative literature and religious studies at the Free University of Berlin and the École Normale Supérieure , where he got in touch with Jacques Derrida...
, Anataxe. Virgule. Balance — Notes pour W de Jean Daive, trad. de l'allemand par Michèle Cohen-Halimi (2009).
External links
La bio-bibliographie de Daive sur le site des éditions POL Bio/biblio/-graphy at a publisher's website- Walks with Paul Celan: a review by American poet Robert ArchambeauRobert ArchambeauFor the poet and critic, see Robert Archambeau Robert Archambeau is a Canadian ceramic artist. Born in Toledo, Ohio, United States in 1933, he immigrated to Canada in 1968. His work, heavily influenced by Japanese ceramics, has been exhibited internationally and is held in many major public and...
- Luminous Wounds John Sheen reviews Walks with Paul Celan