About Gérard Arseguel
Lived 1938 – 2020 (aged 82). Gérard Arseguel was a French poet and literary scholar.
Gérard Arseguel (1938 – 29 February 2020) was a French poet.
Biography Gérard Arseguel lived in Thèze in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region.
He taught French and Latin at the Lycée Paul-Arène in Sisteron. He has collaborated with a number of literary magazines, including Les Cahiers du Sud and Nouvelle Revue Française. He is also co-founder of a magazine, Mantéia. In 1958, in Marseille, he published his first poems in Action poétique, Henri Deluy poetry magazine. From the second half of the 1970s onwards, these works were published on a regular basis by publishing houses such as Christian Bourgois Éditeur, Éditions Flammarion (Poésie collection), Fissile Éditions, Éditions Tarabuste and others. He died on February 29, 2020.
Works Décharges (1979) Une méthode de discours sur la lumière (1979) Les Bleus du procédé (1981) Messes basses pour Mousba (1982) L’Arrivée sur le littoral (1984) Les Malheurs de Sophie (1984) Ce que parler veut dire (1987) Portrait du cœur sous les nuages (1988) À feu doux : House poetry (1990) Suivie du bleu (1993) Bruit d’ailes (1995) Heures d'hiver (1997) Théorie de l’envol (1996) Ça s’est passé en Haute-Provence (1997) Esthétique de l’abandon (2001) Le Journal du bord de terre : déclinaison (2003) L’Almanach des montagnes (2006) Âme, de quel divin ! (2008) Messes basses pour Mousba (2012) Autobiographie du bras gauche (2017) Le petit bois qu'aimait Gérard (2017) La Sainte (2019) Le Campanile de Sambuco (2019)
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French poet (1938-2020)
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Gérard Arseguel was born on 26 February 1938 in Toulouse.
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Gérard Arseguel died on 29 February 2020 in Thèze.
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Gérard Arseguel was a poet and literary scholar.
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