Bernard Heidsieck

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Bernard Heidsieck

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RESPIRATIONS AND BRIEF ENCOUNTERS

 

In 1955, Bernard Heidsieck decided to break with written poetry, laid on the page, to bring it out of the book, to put it in motion: with him, the field of sound poetry opened in France. A striking work in its itinerary, Respirations and Brief Encounters offers the appearance of a conversational text in which the replies of the other person are missing. In it, the poet dialogues with the breath put into a loop of 60 poets who died in the 20th century. An anthology of ghosts interpreted by Laurent Poitrenaux, as an "attempt at recreation of a performance by an actor".

latest work published:
Abécédaire (Alphabet Primer), Voix éditions, 2008

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