- Jean-Michel Maulpoix
Jean-Michel Maulpoix was born on
November 11 ,1952 inMontbeliard ,France .The author of more than twenty volumes of French poetry (in blank verse fragments and in prose) and of several volumes of essays and criticism, he teaches modern French literature at the
University Paris X Nanterre and is the director of the quarterly literary journalLe Nouveau Recueil . He is an alumnus of theÉcole normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud .His most acclaimed work 'Une histoire de bleu' (translated in English as 'A Matter of Blue') consists of prose poems and blank verse in which, writes translator
Dawn Cornelio , he 'uses the color blue to encompass melancholy and nostalgia, but also the joy and hope inherent in life'.He is webmaster of his own website, in French, English and Spanish.
External links
* [http://www.maulpoix.net maulpoix.net]
* [http://www.maulpoix.net/US/indexa.html Jean-Michel Maulpoix & Co.: Modern and contemporary french literature] site maintained by Maulpoix
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
