Jacques Dupin

Jacques Dupin (4 March 1927, Privas, Ardèche – 27 October 2012, Paris) was a French poet, art critic, and co-founder of the journal L'éphemère.

Dupin was born in the town of Privas in the South of France, where his father was a psychiatrist at a state mental hospital. In 1944, the family moved to Paris, where, in 1950, the poet René Char helped him publish his first collection of poems. Giacometti and Bacon both painted his portrait. In 1987, Dupin was the curator of a retrospective of Miró's work at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the first such retrospective in New York since 1959. Works Poetry in English

Of Flies and Monkeys, translated by John Taylor, The Bitter Oleander Press, September 2011 Selected Poems, selected by Paul Auster, translated by Stephen Romer and David Shapiro, Bloodaxe Books, 1992 Selected Poems, Wake Forest University Press, November 1992 Fits and Starts: Selected Poems of Jacques Dupin, translated by Paul Auster, Living Hand Editions, 1974

Poetry in French

Cendrier du voyage, GLM, Paris, 1950 Art poétique, PAB, Alès, 1956 Les Brisants, GLM, Paris, 1958 L'Épervier, GLM, Paris, 1960 Gravir, Gallimard, Paris, 1963 L'embrasure, Gallimard, Paris, 1969 Dehors, Gallimard, Paris, 1975 Ballast, Le Collet de Buffle, Paris, 1976 Histoire de la lumière, L'Ire des Vents, Paris, 1978 De nul lieu et du Japon, Éditions Fata Morgana, Montpellier, 1981 Le Désœuvrement, Orange export Ltd, 1982 Une Apparence de soupirail, Gallimard, Paris, 1982 De singes et de mouches, Éditions Fata Morgana, Montpellier, 1983 Les Mères, Fata Morgana, Montpellier, 1986 Contumace, POL, Paris, 1986 Chansons troglodytes, Éditions Fata Morgana, Montpellier, 1989 Rien encore, tout déjà, Éditions Fata Morgana, Montpellier, 1991 Echancré, POL, Paris, 1991 Eclisse, Spectres familiers, Marseille, 1992 Le grésil, POL, Paris, 1996 Ecart, POL, Paris, 2000 De singes et de mouches suivi de Les mères (réédition), POL, Paris, 2001 Coudrier, POL, Paris, 2006

Essays on modern art

Joan Miro, Flammarion, Paris, 1961 (New augmented edition augmentée 1993) Textes pour une approche sur Alberto Giacometti, Maeght éditeur, 1962 (new edition in 1991, éditions Fourbis) Matière du souffle (sur Antoni Tàpies), Fourbis, Paris, 1994 L'espace autrement dit, Editions Galilée, Paris, 1982 Claude Garache, Dessins, Paris, Conférence et Adam Biro éditeurs, 1999