See also: Seghers

Pierre Seghers , born the January 5th 1906 with Paris and deceased the November 4th 1987 with Creteil, was an editor and a poet French.

Biography

Pierre Seghers (who wrote in clandestinity under the pseudonym of Louis Maste or Paul Rutgers) made his secondary studies with the college of Carpentras and obtains the baccalaureat of philosophy. Of its meeting with Louis Jou in 1930, it becomes in love with poetry and the books. He exerts various trades before devoting himself as from 1938, with his true passion poetry. In September 1939, it is mobilized and founds a review helmeted Poètes . At the beginning of the war (1940), it enters resistance and takes part in the clandestine publications (Editions of midnight, Cahiers of the Release, etc…). In 1975, it supported a thesis of doctorate at the Paris-X University, on poetry in France and the popular culture..

It was in particular:

  • the founder of the Editions of the Tower, in 1938, and of the Seghers Editions after war (it was at this time one of the most active editors of Poésie)
  • a member of the Résistance, at the sides of Aragon and Éluard; in 1940, it created and published the review Poésie 40 , which was the review of the “poets of Resistance, opened to all the voices”, always published nowadays.
  • the founder of the famous collection “Poets of today” launched in May 1944 in an almost square unusual format (15,5 cm X 13,5 cm), and which went from Paul Éluard until number 268 (Pierre Morhange), then of the collection “Poetry and songs”.
  • the author of three books of reference:
    • the gold Book of French poetry (of the origins at 1940).
    • Resistance and its poets, 1940-1945 (Seghers, 1974, rééd. 2004).
    • the gold Book of contemporary French poetry , in two volumes.
  • the author of a personal poetic work, gathered essentially in volume the Time of the wonders (1978).
  • the author of a monograph on the painter baroque Monsù Desiderio (Robert Laffont, 1981).

Some of its poems were put in music:

  • Shit in Vauban by Léo Shoed
  • the Hooligans sung by Juliette Gréco in 1977

Pierre Seghers was chevalier of the Legion of Honor, knight of Arts and letters, officer of the Cross of the South (Brazil) and received in 1960, the Price Paul Cézanne, the Prix Apollinaire in 1959.

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