Poetry
Le Paradis brûle
Not translated into English
Anise Koltz · 1998
Synopsis
A collection of short poems, sober and raw, separated by wide blanks, which confront the essential questions of existence: death, love, often conflictual, the figure of the parents and of the mother, religion, and language itself, to which a section is devoted. Man faces in them a world that does not answer him, and the poet panics in her “paper cage”.
Context
Published in Paris in 1998 by the éditions de la Différence, the collection stands between Chants de refus, in 1993 and 1995, and Le Mur du son, in 1997, on the one hand, and La Terre se tait, in 1999, on the other. Thierry Guichard, in Le Matricule des anges, sees the latter as the sequel to Le Paradis brûle, linked in his view to the death of the author's husband. Evelio Miñano Martínez places these collections within a single body of work, carried by the same voice.
Who it is for
For reading a poetry of essentials, reduced to a few words, by a major voice of French outside France.
Prizes and reception
Thierry Guichard praised in 1998 its great lucidity and poems that overflow their brevity, awakening the senses and the mind.