Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at the University of Paris VIII, and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the journal Po&sie, Claude Mouchard has, among other things, published two historical-critical essays and several books of poems.
He has translated numerous works in collaboration, particularly plays and poetry collections. He was the editor of two special issues of the journal Po&sie, devoted respectively to contemporary Japanese poetry and contemporary South Korean poetry, and he worked to publish poets from the African continent in this journal.
Poems by Claude Mouchard
" EVENING
Developed under the hardened pressure of time,
until it loses all defined consistency,
until diluted and brittle, only cr., ashy, brilliant,
like the glass of lamps lit early against the day,
(dissociated, the area of electrical persistence,
"Yellow-sulfurous, fluid minutes in the very tungsten,"A beautiful overview of the poetic and research work of a writer-poet-researcher, for whom writing and research are one and the same.
Three poetic texts from various collections are complemented by a note on Robert Walser's *An Overview of a Writer's Life * (translated by Claude Mouchard) and an essay on the power of thought. These texts, regardless of the specific aim of each work, reveal a vibrant passion for the musicality of the French language, a perpetual search for rare, rich, and voluptuous words, and a reflection at the intersection of history, testimony, and research.