Poetry
Pierre, poussière
Not translated into English
Nimrod · 1989
Synopsis
The first collection of the poet, who had been writing since the age of sixteen. The poems, according to the Casa della Poesia, turn matter and earth into song, and the title refers to the dust of origins.
Context
Published in 1989 by the éditions Obsidiane, the collection earned its author the Prix de la Vocation the same year. It opens a body of poetry continued with the same publisher, with Passage à l'infini, ten years later. Robert Mamadi, in his 2010 study of Chadian literary production, cites it among the collections of an author who unites philosophy, poetry and theatre, and who was also a teacher and researcher in France.
Who it is for
For discovering the beginnings of a French-language Chadian poet, one of the most honoured of his generation.
Prizes and reception
Crowned in the very year it appeared, the collection is not known to have been reviewed.