Summary
Jean-Luc Wauthier: Fruits of the Shadow
After the progressive disappearance of metaphysics from poetry, the poetic word of Jean-Luc Wauthier wants to collect all that was scattered in the absence. Wauthier's poetry is metaphysical in the ontological sense, insofar as it wants to touch the presence and being of things, but relieved of philosophical weight and terminology. Neither abstract nor elliptical, Wauthier's poetry is simple and readable, and starts from experience, even if that experience is absence, solitude and silence, which appears in all poems as their irreducible support. Jan-Luc Wauthier was born in 1950 in the Belgian city of Charleroi and is one of the leading Belgian Francophone poets. He teaches literature in Nivelle. He is the editor-in-chief of the most famous Belgian poetry magazine Le Journal des poetes, and he is also the coordinator of the poetry Biennale in Liege, founded by the legendary Arthur Haulot. He has published ten collections of poetry and several books of prose, and is the winner of several Belgian and international awards. In November 2004, Jean-Luc Wauthier was a guest at the Festival "Literature Live" in Zagreb, where he had a notable performance.
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