Jean-Pierre Rosnay

Jean-Pierre Rosnay , is a French poet of the 20th century.

It is born with Monplaisir-the-Plain, a district of Lyon. In 1926, it loses his/her Violette mother, who will not cease living her work, at the 5 years age, enters the maquis of the Résistance against the Nazism to the age of 15 years and half (it fights in Haute-Savoie, with the Mouchet mount, in the Vercors, and after its arrest in Lyon, escapes from the jails of Klaus Barbie). It founds after the war the poetic movement of the Jarivistes (GRAVEL BANK) to which took part inter alia his brother-in-law Georges Moustaki, Guy Bedos, Georges Brassens, etc, and which defrays the chronicle by organizing “poetic scandals” (removal of Julien Gracq, burial of the Existentialisme), in the line of the Surréalistes with regard to which it however takes distances while affirming to join again with a poetic tradition which makes rimer the heart with the reason. After Robert Desnos, with Philippe Soupault and Andre Frederique, it is one of the precursors of a poetry which catches on the wrong foot the myth cursed poet and claims to find its public, while not neglecting to use for that the new media: it on television carries out poetic emissions and with the radio, entitled “the Club of the Poets”. It is also the name which it gives in 1961 to its cabaret where, with its “MUSE” (it is its word) and marries, Tsou, it since then organizes of the meetings with poetic poets and spectacles. It organized in 1978, with Léopold Sedar Senghor, the first International festival of Poetry of Paris, which accommodated poets of the whole world, at the time of spectacles

Its poetic work

As of his first collections published in the edition of the Young Brought together Authors, of which it was the organizer, Jean-Pierre Rosnay inaugurates a poetic word which, without being concerned with Schools and theories, has the role to join its reader in his simplest experiment and more the close friend of the life, in a limpid language, cordial and accessible, which wants to speak only about essence: life, love, death, children, and still life. Marked by its experiment of Resistant, whose it reveals spiritual initiation in its first book published at Gallimard and greeted by Raymond Queneau, “the Thirteenth Apostle”, it finds in poetry a form of Resistance prolonged against the brutality of the men. “I have the regret of versed blood/Maudit is the noise of the war/All those which knew my mother/Iront to the sky to find it”.

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