Guy Goffette

Guy Goffette ( born April 18, 1947 in Jamoigne / Gaume, Belgium) is a Belgian writer and poet.

Life

Guy Goffette published his first book of poetry in 1969. Since then he has worked as an editor at the publishing house Éditions Gallimard. Goffettes poetry was compared with that of Paul Verlaine (via the Goffette wrote a fictional biography): The French poet Yves Bonnefoy said:

" Goffette is a legacy of Verlaine. A poet who has decided very brave, credible to remain with his own life in the most humble moments. He keeps things simple, he is wonderfully capable of feelings and desires that are common to us all capture. Goffette is without question one of the best poets of the present in France. "

In addition to his poetry and fiction written Goffette numerous essays and writes regularly for the Nouvelle Revue Française as a critic.

Awards

Writings (selection )

• Quotidien rouge. 1971
• Nomadie. 1979
• Huit muses neuves et nues. Poems to photographs of Miloslav Stibor, 1983
• Solo d' ombres. 1983
• Prologue à une maison sans murs. 1983
• Le dormeur près du toit. 1983
• La vie promise. 1991 translation of the Italian La vita promessa
• Le pêcheur d' eau. Ed. Gallimard, Paris, 1995, coll Blanche. Reed. 2001
• Icarus. with bilingual translation by Tucker Zimmerman, 2000
• Solo d' ombres de Precede Nomadie. 2003
• L' adieu aux Lisières. 2007

• Partance. 1995
• L'ami du jars. 1997
• Verlaine d' Ardoise et de pluie. Series: Folio. Gallimard, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-07-040413-7
• Elle, par bonheur et toujours nue. 1998 translated into English as Forever Nude by Frank Wynne
• Partance et autres lieux de suivi Nema problema. 2000
• Un été autour du cou. 2001
• Une enfance lingere. 2006
• L' autre Verlaine. 2007