Poet and essayist, François Lallier was born in Vincennes in 1947. He lived in Paris from 1968 until 1995. In 1981 his 'États de la mémoire' was published, of which a selection appears in this volume in English translation for the first time. Five books of poetry followed, the last of which, 'Accidents de lumière', was published in 2025 by the Éditions de la Lettre volée in Brussels. It is constructed on a ‘meteorology’ of natural images that precede every kind of representation and yet are like forms, drawing our eyes to the perennial presence of the world. Francois Lallier est ne en 1947. Proche depuis 1968 d'Yves Bonnefoy, il a publie Etats de la memoire en 1981. Cinq livres de poesie suivront, dont le dernier, Accidents de lumiere, paru en 2025 aux editions de La Lettre volee (Bruxelles), s'etablit sur une " meteorologie " des apparitions que sont les moments ou des images naturelles, anterieures a toute representation et pourtant comme des types, font advenir a nos yeux le present perpetuel du monde.

• Acknowledgements - 7Le Miroir / Mirror [AR] - 8Sept fois / Seven Times [JN] - 10 Les Yeux / Eyes [AR] - 12L'Image et le bruit des mots / Image and Sound of Words [AR] - 14Le Feu d'absence / Fire of Absence [AR] - 16Montagne 1 / Mountain 1 [AR] - 18Halte du souvenir / Memory Comes to a Halt [JN] - 20Pres d'Acheron / Near the Acheron [JN] - 22Dans le miroir / In the Mirror [AR] - 24Brindes / Brindisi [AR] - 26Fable / Fable [JN] - 28Citadelle de Nauplie / Citadel of Nauplio [JN] - 30Mouvement du poeme / Movement of the Poem [JN] - 32" Le Coffre de fer " / 'The Iron Chest' [JN] - 34Esquisse des yeux clairs / Sketch of the Bright Eyes [JN] - 36Naissance et mort de l'image / Birth and Death of the Image [JN] - 38Naissance 1 / Birth 1 [AR] - 40Deux images / Two Images [AR] - 42Deesse dans la nuit / Goddess in the Night [JN] - 44Le Sourire, l'eclaire, le serpent /The Smile, the Lightning, the Serpent [JN] - 46Livre des morts / Book of the Dead [JN] - 48Le Lac des morts / The Lake of the Dead [JN] - 50Femme / Woman [AR] - 52Peintre de Rome / Painter of Rome [AR] - 54Enfance / Childhood [JN] - 56Afterword by Francois Lallier - 59Biographical Notes - 61Translators- 62Bibliography - 63

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Poet and essayist, François Lallier was born in Vincennes in 1947. He lived in Paris from 1968 until 1995. In 1981 his 'États de la mémoire' was published, of which a selection appears in this volume in English translation for the first time. Five books of poetry followed, the last of which, 'Accidents de lumière', was published in 2025 by the Éditions de la Lettre volée in Brussels. It is constructed on a ‘meteorology’ of natural images that precede every kind of representation and yet are like forms, drawing our eyes to the perennial presence of the world. Francois Lallier est ne en 1947. Proche depuis 1968 d'Yves Bonnefoy, il a publie Etats de la memoire en 1981. Cinq livres de poesie suivront, dont le dernier, Accidents de lumiere, paru en 2025 aux editions de La Lettre volee (Bruxelles), s'etablit sur une " meteorologie " des apparitions que sont les moments ou des images naturelles, anterieures a toute representation et pourtant comme des types, font advenir a nos yeux le present perpetuel du monde.

• Acknowledgements - 7Le Miroir / Mirror [AR] - 8Sept fois / Seven Times [JN] - 10 Les Yeux / Eyes [AR] - 12L'Image et le bruit des mots / Image and Sound of Words [AR] - 14Le Feu d'absence / Fire of Absence [AR] - 16Montagne 1 / Mountain 1 [AR] - 18Halte du souvenir / Memory Comes to a Halt [JN] - 20Pres d'Acheron / Near the Acheron [JN] - 22Dans le miroir / In the Mirror [AR] - 24Brindes / Brindisi [AR] - 26Fable / Fable [JN] - 28Citadelle de Nauplie / Citadel of Nauplio [JN] - 30Mouvement du poeme / Movement of the Poem [JN] - 32" Le Coffre de fer " / 'The Iron Chest' [JN] - 34Esquisse des yeux clairs / Sketch of the Bright Eyes [JN] - 36Naissance et mort de l'image / Birth and Death of the Image [JN] - 38Naissance 1 / Birth 1 [AR] - 40Deux images / Two Images [AR] - 42Deesse dans la nuit / Goddess in the Night [JN] - 44Le Sourire, l'eclaire, le serpent /The Smile, the Lightning, the Serpent [JN] - 46Livre des morts / Book of the Dead [JN] - 48Le Lac des morts / The Lake of the Dead [JN] - 50Femme / Woman [AR] - 52Peintre de Rome / Painter of Rome [AR] - 54Enfance / Childhood [JN] - 56Afterword by Francois Lallier - 59Biographical Notes - 61Translators- 62Bibliography - 63

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Poet and essayist, François Lallier was born in Vincennes in 1947. He lived in Paris from 1968 until 1995. In 1981 his 'États de la mémoire' was published, of which a selection appears in this volume in English translation for the first time. Five books of poetry followed, the last of which, 'Accidents de lumière', was published in 2025 by the Éditions de la Lettre volée in Brussels. It is constructed on a ‘meteorology’ of natural images that precede every kind of representation and yet are like forms, drawing our eyes to the perennial presence of the world. Francois Lallier est ne en 1947. Proche depuis 1968 d'Yves Bonnefoy, il a publie Etats de la memoire en 1981. Cinq livres de poesie suivront, dont le dernier, Accidents de lumiere, paru en 2025 aux editions de La Lettre volee (Bruxelles), s'etablit sur une " meteorologie " des apparitions que sont les moments ou des images naturelles, anterieures a toute representation et pourtant comme des types, font advenir a nos yeux le present perpetuel du monde.

• Acknowledgements - 7Le Miroir / Mirror [AR] - 8Sept fois / Seven Times [JN] - 10 Les Yeux / Eyes [AR] - 12L'Image et le bruit des mots / Image and Sound of Words [AR] - 14Le Feu d'absence / Fire of Absence [AR] - 16Montagne 1 / Mountain 1 [AR] - 18Halte du souvenir / Memory Comes to a Halt [JN] - 20Pres d'Acheron / Near the Acheron [JN] - 22Dans le miroir / In the Mirror [AR] - 24Brindes / Brindisi [AR] - 26Fable / Fable [JN] - 28Citadelle de Nauplie / Citadel of Nauplio [JN] - 30Mouvement du poeme / Movement of the Poem [JN] - 32" Le Coffre de fer " / 'The Iron Chest' [JN] - 34Esquisse des yeux clairs / Sketch of the Bright Eyes [JN] - 36Naissance et mort de l'image / Birth and Death of the Image [JN] - 38Naissance 1 / Birth 1 [AR] - 40Deux images / Two Images [AR] - 42Deesse dans la nuit / Goddess in the Night [JN] - 44Le Sourire, l'eclaire, le serpent /The Smile, the Lightning, the Serpent [JN] - 46Livre des morts / Book of the Dead [JN] - 48Le Lac des morts / The Lake of the Dead [JN] - 50Femme / Woman [AR] - 52Peintre de Rome / Painter of Rome [AR] - 54Enfance / Childhood [JN] - 56Afterword by Francois Lallier - 59Biographical Notes - 61Translators- 62Bibliography - 63

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