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On Thursday, October 10, the second edition of the literary program “Les Collections Madame Figaro” took place, this time poetry. And for guests: editor Chloé Deschamps and author and artist Clementine Melois.
On October 11, the second episode of Madame Figaro’s literary “Collections” program took place, with the participation of Chanel. An episode dedicated to poetry, with guests Clementine Melois and Chloe Deschamps. A visual artist and writer, the former has just released his new book, So that’s good (Gallimard, 2024), a story to pay tribute to his father, the sculptor Bernard Melois, who died in June 2023, who passed on to him his passion for art and a certain poetic idea of the world. For more than 10 years, editor of Editions Grasset, Chloé Deschamps has published essays, novels and poetry, and created the Instagram account @aquoibonlespoetes (18.5k followers). Together, they questioned many aspects of poetic art, from its complex definition to its translation into foreign languages, including the way in which it “colors the world,” as Chloé Deschamps put it.
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Language art
Clementine Meloa admits. “I don’t feel like I’m writing a poem.” However, the work of this member of the Oulipo (Ouvroir de literaturepotential, a working group on experimental literature created by Raymond Keno in 1960) Editor’s note), often questions, with lots of humor and images, language surprises. For him, poetry is “going to the line”. As for Chloé Deschamps, she defines it as “the art of language that best brings people together.”
The latter created the Instagram account @aquoibonlespoetes while in custody to keep in touch with his loved ones. since then he has published a poem every day, chosen from among his favorite authors, accompanied by a photograph of the book from which it was taken; has her hand raised on the cover, which is also a way to show that her favorite poems are part of her personal story. Clementine Meloa also transcribed this intimate policy So that’s goodwhich looks back on both his childhood with his father and accompanying him to his last days.
In one of his previous works. Out of the storm (Grasset, 2020), dedicated to the readings that shaped him, Clementine Melois emphasized the persistence of poems or songs in our minds, citing: Save the love By Daniel Balawan, whose refrain followed him throughout his life; reading this passage during the show allowed the two guests to draw a parallel between the two genres. “When I listen to a song or read a poem, it seems that my world is wider,” Chloe Deschamps confides. As for Clementine Meloa, she “loves poetry when it creates something powerful with so few means.”
Poets to (re)discover
This new edition of the “Madame Figaro Collections” also allowed us to look back at the great names of female poets in history, such as Louise Labe, Louise de Vilmorin, Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson or recently the American Amanda Gorman, who read: One of his texts at Barack Obama’s inauguration, or Rupi Kaur, a Canadian poet and illustrator who became famous on Instagram. French artist, translator and poet Cecile A. spoke in the video. Holdban. Between his writing process and the way he transcribes his feelings, he also sums up his artistic approach with this simple sentence: “Poetry is the voice of loved ones.” A lively and cheerful show that can be discovered on repeat.
Source: Le Figaro
