Drailles (Jean Lescure)

Drailles is a collection of Poèmes writes by Jean Lescure and appeared in 1968.

Presentation

" Drailles " (ways of transhumance) whose complete title specifies " follow-up of small poetic meccano n° 00" , is a collection of 294 pages published by Gallimard. It represents, between 1958, date of the publication of its " Thirteen poèmes" , and 1968, ten years of the literary work of Jean Lescure of which it constitutes the sixth of the major works.

Composition

These poems have as titles:
  • " Drailles" , dedicated to Guillevic
  • " An Herbarium of the dunes" , dedicated to the father of the poet
  • " The Secrecy of the simples" , dedicated to Fiorini
  • " Midsummer's Day of été" , dedicated to Gaston Bachelard
  • " Housewife mémoire"
  • " The Crown of Laure" , dedicated to Sylvie Galanis
  • " False windows fêtes" , dedicated to Michel-Georges Bernard
  • " Baigneuses" , dedicated to Jacques Duchateau
  • " Noise the opéra" , dedicated to Raymond Queneau
  • " Small meccano poétique" is dedicated to Jacques Bens

Several of these poems had been the subject of bibliophilic publications beforehand, accompanied by Gravure S or Lithographie S of painters of the news École of Paris that Jean Lescure had met as from 1937, accompanying their work by forewords and articles in reviews:

  • " The Crown of Laure" , with an engraving of Marcel Fiorini, in " Painted words I" , Paris, Editions O. Lazar-Vernet, 1962.
  • " An Herbarium of the dunes" , 20 boards of Fiorini, Paris, Editions of the gallery Jeanne To rough-hew, 1963.
  • " Drailles" , with 4 drawings of Jean Coulot, in " Médiations" n° 7, Paris, spring 1964.
  • " Midsummer's Day of été" , with 11 wood engraved of Leon Gischia, Paris, Galanis, 1964.

The author was to specify of this collection: " any republication will have to carry in dedication to Gilberte " second wife, Gilberte Quéré].

Analyzes

" Between a silence and silence poetry inserts sometimes the tender ones, the vulnerable ones, hard concretions of some combinations of words which are, perhaps , at the same time the assertion and the negation of this silence. A destiny, perhaps , leads some men to appear in the objects of the language a history without history, one duration without duration, a way, without beginning nor end other than random, as these vague traces which the herds of transhumance leave and which one calls of the drailles in the midi" , writes the author in the prayer to insert collection (November 1968).

Extract

Ici the way starts to descend

the small day once again

the sandstone frolor the sensitive to the cold grain

the gray

like the deafening gangways of a boat empties

crossed insomnia

which slopes reappear of a so fair shoulder

is this ash or the fog

in which gardens or which marshes
low which awaits me

in charge of memory

I like
in slowness
that the house this morning comes in the world

badly dessillée badly ressuyée of the dreams

Midsummer's Day of summer

Sources

  • Michel-Georges Bernard, Jean Lescure , in " Dictionary of Poetry of Baudelaire at our days, under the direction of Michel Jarrety" , University Presses of France, Paris, 2001.
  • Michel-Georges Bernard, Jean Lescure or mornings of the word , followed by a choice of poems, in Poetry/first, n° 29, Edinter Editions, Soisy-sur-Seine, July-October 2004.

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