Pierre Reverdy , born with Narbonne the September 11th 1889 and deceased with the Abbey of Solesmes the June 17th 1960, is a poet French associated with the Cubisme and the Surréalisme.

Biography

Declared “born from unknown father and mother” at the registry office of Narbonne, Pierre Reverdy had to await his twenty-second year to be recognized by his mother. The year of her birth, his/her mother was married but her husband lived in Argentine. It is not that in 1897, qu ' it could remarier with the father of Reverdy, wine grower in the black Montagne. Pierre Reverdy came from a family of sculptors, masons stone of church. All its life will be marked by it by a feeling of major religiosity which one finds in his poetry. It continued its studies with Toulouse and Narbonne.

It arrives at Paris in October 1910. In Montmartre, with famous the Boat wash-house, it meets his first friends: Guillaume Apollinaire, max Jacob, Aragon, André Breton, Philippe Soupault and Tristan Tzara.

During sixteen years he lives to create books. His/her companions are Pablo Picasso, Braque, Henri Matisse. All these years are related of near or by far to the rise of the surrealism, of which it is one of the inspirers. Its design of the poetic image has in particular a great influence on the Breton young person and his theorization of the surrealist movement.

In 1917, it founds the review North-South in which the poets of the Dadaïsme collaborate then Surréalisme.

In 1926, it chooses God and is withdrawn close to the Abbaye of Solesmes, it is then 37 years old, it remains there until its death, at 71 years in 1960. There were born its more beautiful collections, such Sources of the wind , Ferraille , the Song of dead the . Reverdy is a mystic of poetry, his approach of real makes think of the images cathedrals, with this expansion, this vice of forms to express the mystical dash of the manufacturers.

Rene Char said of him that it was “a poet without whip nor mirror”.

Works

  • 1915 : Prose poems (Paris, Birault Printing works).
  • 1916: the oval Attic window (Birault).
  • 1916: Some poems (Birault).
  • 1917: the robber of Talan , novel (Avignon, Rullière Printing works).
  • 1918: the Slates of the roof , with two drawings of Georges Directs (Birault).
  • 1918: camouflaged Jockeys and period inset plate , with five drawings of Henri Matisse (Printing works F. Bernouard). This edition was repudiated by the poet and the illustrator. “Only approved”, with completed to print of December 30th, 1918, was drawn at Birault.
  • 1919: the deadened guitar , with four drawings of Juan Gris (Birault Printing works).
  • 1919: Coil defense . Critical-esthetics. (Birault).
  • 1921: painted Stars , with an etching of Andre Derain (Paris, Sagittarius).
  • 1921: Heart of oak , with eight engravings on wood by Manolo (Editions of the Simon Gallery).
  • 1922: Hangman's ropes , with three etchings of Pablo Picasso (North-South Editions).
  • 1924: Pablo Picasso and its work , in Pablo Picasso with twenty-six reproductions of paintings and drawings (Gallimard).
  • 1924: Wrecks of the sky (Gallimard).
  • 1925: Sea foams , with a portrait of the author by Picasso (Gallimard).
  • 1925: Great nature (Paris, free Books).
  • 1926: Skin of the man , popular novel (Gallimard).
  • 1927: the Massage glove (Plon).
  • 1928: the Ball with the jump , with a portrait of the author by Modigliani (Marseilles, Books of the South).
  • 1929: Sources of the wind , with a portrait of the author by Picasso (Maurice Sachs editor).
  • 1929: Puddle pools of glass (Gallimard).
  • 1930: white Stones , with a portrait of the author and a frontispiece of Marc Chagall (Carcassonne, Editions of art Jordy).
  • 1930: Risks and dangers , tales 1915-1928 (Gallimard).
  • 1937: Scrap (Brussels).
  • 1937: Preface with Déluges of Georges Herment (Jose Corti).
  • 1940: Full glass (Nice).
  • 1945: Majority of time , poems 1915-1922, which takes again Prose poems , Some poems , the oval attic window , the slates of the roof , the camouflaged jockeys , the deadened guitar , painted Stars , Cœur of oak and Hangman's ropes (Gallimard, republished in 1969 in the collection “Poetry”).
  • 1945: Preface with Souspente of Antoine Tudal (Paris, Éditions R.J. Cup).
  • 1946: Faces , fourteen lithographies of Henri Matisse accompanied by poetries by Reverdy (Paris, Editions of the Oak).
  • 1948: Song of dead the , with 125 lithographies of Pablo Picasso (Tériade editor).
  • 1948: the Book of my edge , notes 1930-1936 (Mercure de France).
  • 1949: alive Tomb , Dulce and decorum is pro patria mori , in Tomb of Jean-Sebastien Galanis (Paris, printed by Daragnès).
  • 1949: Labor , poems 1913-1949, which begins again: Great nature , the ball with the jump , Sources of the wind , white Stones , Scrap , Full glass and the song of dead the and adds Cale dries and green Bois , news (Mercure de France).
  • 1950: an adventure methodical , with twelve lithographies colors and twenty-six in black and white of Directs (Paris, Mourlot).
  • 1953: Circle gilded , song, with a lithography of Georges Directs (Mourlot).
  • 1955: With the sun of the ceiling , with eleven lithographies of Juan Gris (Tériade editor).
  • 1956: In bulk (Monaco, Editions of the Rock).
  • 1959: the Freedom of the seas , illustrated by Georges Directs (Maeght Editions).
  • 1962: With Rene Tank , poem, with a drawing of Georges Directs (Ales, P.A. Benoît, drawn epistolary poem with 4 e.g.)
  • 1966: moving Sand , with ten aquatintes of Picasso (Paris, L. To embroider editor).

External bond

  • Biografía there poemas in español of Pierre Reverdy

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