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Jean-Michel Espitallier se je rodil leta
1957 v Barcelonnettu v Franciji, danes
pa živi v Parizu. Študiral je književnost
na Univerzi v Aix-en-Provence. Bil
je soustanovitelj lite rarne revije Java
(1989–2006) in urednik antologije sodobne
francoske poezije Pièces détachées
(Oblika garniture, 2000). Je pesnik in
pisatelj, ki obožuje rock; leta 2009 je
izdal knjigo Syd Barrett, le rock et autres
trucs (Syd Barrett, rock in druge reči).
Avtorja ni mogoče uvrstiti v nobeno
strujo. Seznami, odkloni, ritmične
zanke, ponavljanja, odštekana proza,
napačni teoremi, absurdni predlogi
in sofizmi z ustvarjanjem novih oblik
kljubujejo obrabljenemu pojmovanju
poezije in omogočajo igro z vsem, kar
je v jeziku bizarnega, ter izzivajo njegove
meje. V svoji poeziji v zbirkah, kot
so Ponts de frappe (1995), Le théorème
d’Espitallier (Espitallierjev teorem,
2003), En Guerre (Vojna, 2004), ali v
zbirki esejev Cent quarante-huit propositions
sur la vie et la mort, et autres petits
traités (Sto oseminštirideset predlogov
o življenju in smrti ter drugi kratki eseji,
2011) uporablja najbolj radikalno
fantazijo in z njo tragičnemu nadene
(komično) masko, s tem pa prestopa
estetske in etične meje.
Jean-Michel Espitallier was born in
1957 in Barcelonnette, France . Today
he lives in Paris . He studied literature at
the University of Aix-en-Provence . He
was the co-founder of the Java (1989-
2006) literary magazine and the editor
of the contemporary French poetry
anthology Pièces détachées (Form Kit,
2000) . He is a poet and author with
a distinct affinity for rock; in 2009 he
published a book called Syd Barrett, le
rock et autres trucs (Syd Barrett, Rock
and Other Stuff) . He cannot be cat- cat-
egorized into any particular stream .
Lists, deviations, rhythmical snares,
repetitions, out-of-this-world prose, erroneous
theorems, absurd suggestions and
sophistries defy the worn-out reasoning of
poetry with the creation of new forms and
enable a game with all that is bizarre in
language, and challenge its boundaries . In
his collections of poetry; such as Ponts de
frappe (1995), Le théorème d’Espitallier
(Espitallier’s Theorem, 2003), En Guerre
(War, 2004) or his collection of essays
titled Cent quarante-huit propositions
sur la vie et la mort, et autres petits
traités (One Hundered and Forty-Eight
Hints on Life and Death and Other Short
Essays, 2011); he applies the most radical
fantasy and uses it to cover the tragic with
a (comical) mask, thus crossing aesthetical
and ethical boundaries .