Armand Godoy

Armand Godoy (born with Havana, Cuba in 1880 - died with Paris in 1964) is a poet Symbolist of cuban origin. Initially engaged in the trade of cuban Tobacco, it will change language, at forty years, to become Poète French " in the language of Baudelaire " and settles in Paris in 1919. Bibliophile and Collector, it dedicated an admiration very particular to this poet of which it had a considerable number of documents and memories, in particular the letters of Baudelaire to his/her mother. Deeply attached to the poets of the Parnassus and the symbolism, he was the holder of an impressive collection of books, manuscripts, tables, engravings and sculptures. All the work of Godoy is directed towards a kind of appeasing of the heart and a lapse of memory of the physical condition of the poet by the musical quality of the sentences, as if the singing sonority of the words contained an absolute and divine secrecy. “ I seek/the words of fire that one forever known as. ”, he in Hosanna writes on the sistre (1928). Beyond the music of the words, it is the rate/rhythm of the sentences which surprises its contemporaries “ Mr. Armand Godoy is, above all, a Master of rates/rhythms. ”, written Joseph Rivière which thus stresses the importance of “ rhythmic concern ” (the expression is of Olivier Messiaen) in poetic art godoyen: “ This poet, would say one, thinks by rates/rhythms, épand and affirms by musical waves ”. Finally Paul Petitot names Godoy the “ prince of the rate/rhythm ”.

Works

Hosanna over the sistre , Bernard Grasset editor, Paris, 1928
the Drama of Passion , Bernard Grasset editor, Paris, 1929
Marcel , Emile-Paul Brothers, Paris, 1932
Ite, Missa is , Bernard Grasset editor, Paris, 1933
the Poem of the Atlantic , Bernard Grasset editor, Paris, 1938
Bréviaire , Emmanuel Vitte editor, Lyon, Paris, 1941
Of Vespers to Crossbred , Egloff, Freiburg in Switzerland, 1944
My son! My son! , Egloff, Freiburg in Switzerland, 1946
Nightingale , Egloff, Paris, 1949
the Herbarium of Armand Godoy , Egloff, Freiburg in Switzerland, 1949
Sonnets for the paddle , Bernard Grasset editor, Paris, 1949
Conference of the joy , Bernard Grasset editor, Paris, Paris, 1951
Dulcinée , Bernard Grasset editor, Paris, 1957
Milosz the poet of the love , Andre Silvaire editor, Paris, 1960
poetic Translations , Bernard Grasset editor, Paris, 1961

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