Gaston Miron

Gaston Miron is a Poète and editor Québécois, born with Holy-Agathe-of-Mounts the January 8th 1928 and died with Montreal the December 14th 1996.

He is the cofounder of the Éditions of the Hexagon, in company of Gilles Carle, Portuguese Louis, Olivier Marchand, Mathilde Ganzini and Jean-Claude Rinfret. Founded in 1953, it acts of the first publisher of Québécois Poésie .

Gaston Miron publishes poems as of the Années 1950, in various daily newspapers and periodicals, of which the Duty, Liberté and Parti taken. In 1953, it publishes with Olivier Marchand a collection of poetry, Two bloods , which will inaugurate the Editions of the Hexagon. Being however dissatisfied poems which it published in a scattered way, it is only at the dawn of the Années 1970 that it is let convince to gather them, with some of its texts in prose, in a collection entitled the Man rapaillé , his Master works (Prix Apollinaire). Published in 1970 with the Presses of the University of Montreal (and not with the Editions of the Hexagon), Miron will work over again this work constantly - seven editions of the texts were published. Gaston Miron is regarded still today as the largest poet of contemporary Quebec, by the force and the depth of the universal questioning which it is posed, on itself and cultural conditionings which were imposed to him at the time, in anglicized Quebec of any share. Its poem “walk with the love” one of most beautiful is ever written in French America.

Poetry and prose

  • Two bloods (collection of poems of Gaston MIRON and Olivier Marchand), Montreal, Editions of the Hexagon, 1953.

  • the man rapaillé , Montreal, Presses of the University of Montreal (for the first edition of the collection), 1970.
  • Courtepointes , Ottawa, Editions of the University of Ottawa, 1975.
  • scattered Poems , text-editing of 1947 to 1995, under the direction of Marie-Andree BEAUDET and Pierre NEPVEU, Montreal, Editions of the Hexagon, 2003.
  • a long way (of other proses) , text-editing in prose, under the direction of Marie-Andree BEAUDET and Pierre NEPVEU, Montreal, Editions of the Hexagon, 2004.

Honors

Correspondence

  • With bearing end (correspondence 1954-1965) , correspondence of Gaston MIRON with Claude HAEFFELY, Lemeac Editions, 1989.

Words of the poet

  • “the feeling devouring to disappear on the spot from these people which do not finish any more not being born. ”

  • “It is a little us all in that which from goes away and it is in that which is born a little us all which becomes different. ”

  • “We will return, we will have with back the past, and by have taken of hatred all the constraints, we will have become wild animals of the hope”

  • “released future, committed future. ”

  • “time it is a straight line and dying of my eye to the unhoped-for one. ”

  • “I never travelled towards another country but you my country. ”

  • “Men, remember you of of other times. ”

  • “We will be never again of the men if our eyes are emptied of their memory. ”

  • “Here my knees which the men forgive us we let humiliate the intelligence of the fathers…”

External bonds

  • Gaston Miron: word of poet - Files of Radio-Canada

Works on Gaston Miron

  • Jacques BRAULT, “Miron the splendid one”, in Way making , Montreal, Boreal, coll “stuck papers”, 1994, p. 23-55.

  • Claude FILTEAU, the poetic space of Gaston Miron , foreword of Jerusa Worse Ferreira, Limoges, University Presses of Limoges, coll “Francophonie”, 2005,310 p.

  • Yannick GASQUY-RESCH, Gaston Miron, Exaggerated splendid the , Hurtubise Editions, 2003.

  • Pierre NEPVEU, words with listening , Quebec, Presses of the Laval University/Editions Foot-note bucket, 1979/2002.

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