Thierry Pérémarti
Thierry Pérémarti, born in 1957, has devoted himself to two passions: words, as a poet, author, translator, and proofreader; and music, as a journalist and critic for French and American periodicals, and as a consultant for digital platforms and streaming services. In 2009, he published *Visiting Jazz* with Le mot et le reste, a book compiling intimate portraits of around one hundred musicians. Originally from Bordeaux, he has lived in Paris, New York, and Los Angeles. He became a naturalized American citizen after immigrating to the United States in 1985 and now resides in Dallas, Texas. His first collection of poetry was published in 1976.
What does our waiting say, when it burns, stripped bare, finding itself on the edge of a flickering hope, when "we no longer have nights within us"? If being falters, this in-between is not that of a dark night: the nuances carved out, chiseled by the force of words work to stitch our tears, striving to touch the combustible in order to better approach the edifying fervor of consenting to the love that leaves us. Just as the drawings of the painter Corine Pagny leave traces of silhouettes/bodies of ourselves on the edge, capsized at the brink, drawn toward the center of what remains; so too do the poet's words call out to us at the tipping point where existence places us, to see us return from "disarmament" to "the cut grass that still sings" when it "hems the world to be built." From this composition emerges an atmosphere whose doors Pérémarti had already opened for us in his previous publications. This book is a call to our thirst/hunger for life. Publication date: June 1, 2023. Order now
