Henri de Lescoët

Born in 1906 with Anjouan (the Comoros), Henri de Lescoët is a poet, translator, editor and revuist French.

Installed in Nice, it very early published its first collections of poems, then it founded and directed the editions of the " Islands of " Lérins" starting from 1929. In 1940, it founded the editions and the review " Literary profile of France" who, appearing in Nice, collected the texts of the writers being in free zone, review in which collaborated Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes starting from 1942. After war, the review carried on its way by changing several times of name: " Abordages" , " Septembre" …

Elegist, a writing turned towards the traditional one, it did not approach less École Rochefort and belonged to their books of them twice, in 1942 and 1944. What proves the open-minded existing at the " Friends of Rochefort" and, in return, which will undoubtedly have influenced the poet in his evolutions towards a less formal writing.

Works

Poésie

• Your eyes have clearness (Gastaud, Nice, 1927)
• Ciels painted (the Hermitage, 1928)
• new Poèmes (Bookstore of France, 1928)
• the shades (Islands of Lérins, 1929)
• Stances in Marie (Islands of Lérins, 1929)
• Zones (Islands of Lérins, 1936)
• the secret paddle (Islands of Lérins, 1937)
• Depths (Islands of Lérins, 1937)
• Ode with the desire (Islands of Lérins, 1937)
• Three poems (Margins, 1938)
• Typography of the place (Islands of Lérins, 1938)
• speaking Flowers (Bandiera, Genoa, 1938)
• Escaped from the ground (Islands of Lérins, 1941)
• My voice (Books of Rochefort, 1942)
• Through the present (the Meridian line, 1942)
• To take again heart (Books of Rochefort, 1944)
• a poem (the press with arm, 1949)
• Only one language in the world (coll of Luxembourg, 1950)
• Ten sonnets occult (the galère, Luxembourg, 1951)
• the man available (coll of Luxembourg, 1952)
• the flower of the words (Delfica, 1953)
• the poem makes its secret poem (Seghers, 1953)
• Poésie my loneliness (Debresse, 1956)
• This image which you want to seize (Delfica, 1956)
• Très far behind (To know, Geneva, 1958)
• Trous in the mirror (Delfica, 1959)
• Where is the bird (poetic Profile, 1969)
• Ten silences three gestures (Caracas, 1971)
• And nowhere (Saint-Germain-of-Meadows, 1978)
• Couleur of the events (Caracas, 1980)

• Two hundred alive French “poet-poets” (the Meridian line, 1941)
• Anthology of the poetry of today (3 volumes with the Editions September, respectively published in 1948,1949 and 1950)