Michele Métail , born in 1950 with Paris, is poet and creator of “sound poems”. After studies of German, it passes a Doctorat of Chinese bearing on the Chinese Poésie old. Stock exchange of DAAD in residence in Berlin, it completed a photographic work there. Since 1973, its texts during “oral publications”. Slides and bands accompany sometimes its readings, where she works the Allitération and the Assonance like an interference, a jamming of the direction.

It entered to the Oulipo in 1975, introduced by François Lionnais. It took its distances with respect to the group, and lives and works today in Berry.

Publications

• First decade: possessive phrases . 1973-1983., Wrecks, Issy-les-Moulineaux, 1983.

• * City, of the City , Contract hand, 1998.
• the chart of the sphere armillaire of Known Today , Theater typographical, 1998.
• Mandibles, jaw , with Louis Roquin, the Room, 2000.
• horizons of the ground , Panorama, CipM, Spectra familiar, 1999.
• Poetry, cosmology and combinative in modern China , the poem with " turned over reading " , Book Art and Science, n° 4,2001.
• sound poetries: new esthetic phenomena , Vincent Barred and Nicolas Zurbrugg Éds, 2000.
• the letters are insects taken in the net of the words , Gigantexte" n° 4,1998.
• Hundred percent . With Louis Roquin, ED. F. Despailes 1998.
• Huiwenshi Chinese poems with turned over reading in Poetic Action, n°170, 2003

• Identikit pictures , BO n° 21,1982.
• Fifty corpuscular poems , BO n° 33,1986.
• Filigrees , BO n° 34,1986.
• Fifty poems oscillatory , BO n° 35,1986.
• Small atlas geo-homophonic of the departments of the Metropolitan France and overseas , BO n° 39,1987.
• Fifty poems oligogrammes , BO n° 50,1989.

External bonds

• page of Michele Métail on the official site of Oulipo