Gilbert Bourson 

Gilbert Bourson


Gilbert Bourson, born in 1936, was a director and actor. He has published several books of poetry, novels and essays with various publishers, including Editions du Chasseur abstrait, La Grisière (published by Saint-Germain-des-Prés), Compact, Z4, Jebca (Boston, United States), Tinbad, Douro/La Bleu-Turquin. He participated in the anthology 49 poètes, a collective work edited by Yves di Manno at Flammarion. He has also published in several magazines: Arpa, Cheval d'attaque, Cahiers du double, Les carnets d'Eucharis, Polyphonie, Substance (United States), Action poétique, Travail théâtral, Les cahiers de Tinbad. A large part of his works is published in "Chasseur abstrait" He contributes to this publisher's online magazine: La RAL'M. He lives and works in the Paris region.

Floor of the Sky follows on from The Sky Writes Nothing, which appeared in the same collection "The Writer's Diagonal" last year. Each piece that makes up this book often consists of a quote followed by a text. Gilbert Bourson decided to write the very first letter of the others in bold, a bit like the initials of medieval copyists. First observation: it's not a question of writing like, but rather of writing with. What is the status of these texts? Pure stylistic exercises? Not so simple. Because one has the distinct impression, upon reading each one, that each text writes itself, of itself, that it, in a way, self-generates. To go where, you might ask? But simply to go towards itself. And one can only think of Roland Barthes and his Pleasure of the Text. For each text written here, as in the previous book by Gilbert Bourson, is a pure marvel. But there is also what is perhaps most important, namely the sensation that every reader of Bourson feels: that of experiencing and attaining, while reading, a certain form of metaphysics. Metaphysics of Language and Metaphysics of Being. Gilbert Bourson is undeniably an outstanding stylist. Publication: September 1, 2023 Order Press Release


I begin "I will only speak in the presence of my writing" with the evocation of an "accident" that must occur, in order to trigger this rain of the senses that the poem allows. (I am thinking of Epicurus' clinamen). This evocation is that of a body "struck" by the desire of another body whose blood will stain the plane trees of words. Poetry is an enterprise of rehabilitation of the reality hidden by "too much reality" according to Annie Le Brun's formula; a poem can only be explained by its unreasonable reading, just as we look at a wall, a tree, or a door. The reason for the assembly of words that compose it will become clear when the reader reads it within himself "in all good faith." What we call readability is often what remains in the agreed sense of what must be seen, without reading within oneself the content of one's sight. Once the writing is underway, she chases high above that something that intrigues her, ruffled like a partridge. In partridge there is loss, and what is gained in this rapprochement is the poem. Gilbert Bourson Publication: December 1, 2023 Order


To write, to hunt, to rummage through the second-hand shop of language, searching in the opportunities life offers for its supply of things and feelings. Whoever speaks, gives himself up without freeing himself, except from boredom. How many yellowing loves and how many lost games, and so much the worse for the rule. The rediscovered three-legged horse only limps from one more vice. To speak to see oneself and to hear the axle of the self-I creak in search of what, of whom, and of nothing. And literature piles up its formulas, its styles, its sales, and its leftovers, highlighting its new patches of a new cycle. Solitary reveries of one who is spoken of by so many walkers, who, in speaking of him, give him all the names and get tangled up in the titles of the book he is: "China," "Chains," or "Chicken." But a love is found, beneath the written words, in "Site" in "Things", and whose dedication is blurred by the enlightened comments of enthusiasts of the petits fours of culture. Publication: July 1, 2023 Order