Benoît Gréan (born in

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), is a

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. He moved first to

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in the late 1980s, then settled in

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. Gréan has published twelve volumes of poetry in French. Several of his works have been translated and published into German, Greek, Italian and English. In Germany, Hochroth has published him bilingually and he was a contributor to several issues of the German painter

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's '' Frau und Hund''. His volume ''Monstres tièdes'' has been translated by Massimo Sannelli and published in a bilingual Italian edition as ''Mostri tiepidi'' with a preface by

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. A Greek translation, ''Chliara terata'' by Efi Hatziforou, has been published. Fascinated by lapidary or fragmentary form, from

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, he is equally intrigued by the explorations of contemporary music. ''Mai'' and ''Monstres tièdes'' are generally linked to Mediterranean life, whereas ''PSB 24'' (''Petite suite blieuxoise en 24 heures'') and ''PSA 14'' (''Petite suite attique en 14 pauses'') are anchored in specific sites, respectively, of

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, France, and ancient and modern Greece. ''corps et riens'', ''Extinctions'' and ''Successions'' should be read as a trilogy (the second title refers to

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). Gréan has also enjoyed collaborating with artists. ''80'' is an artist's book with a lithograph by Luisa Gardini, an Italian artist who also contributed to ''Mai'', ''Monstres tièdes'', ''corps et riens'', ''Successions'', ''à'', ''Rideau'' and ''Sonnets des satiétés''; Gardini also turned ''Monstres tièdes'' into a book of her own, ''WPMT15'', published by cythère critique in 2005 (), as well as a series of bookmarks published by Ecbolade in 2004, and a poster stamped by atelier de l'agneau in 2003. Works by the French painter Caroline Coppey appear in ''PSA 14'' and ''Extinctions'', and ''Bleu jour'' is based on the work of the same artist. The poems Gréan has addressed to the general work of Luisa Gardini, Caroline Coppey and Giorgio Bevignani are in ''à''. The composer Valerio Sannicandro based his ''Corps/Riens'' on ''corps et riens'', which was first performed in

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on November 13, 2015. Other composers such as Michèle Reverdy, Pierre Strauch, Gilles Schuehmacher, Amelia Clarkson and Mathieu Robert worked on his poetry. Some poems have been published in various magazines as ''PO&SIE'', ''Poésie 2000'', ''Le Mâche-Laurier'', ''Noniouze'', ''Décharge'', ''Marge 707'', ''Moriturus'', ''Le frisson esthétique'', ''Hapax'', ''l'intranquille'' and ''larevue*'' in France, ''Calendrier de la poésie francophone'' and ''MIDI'' in Belgium, ''RBL (Revue de Belles-Lettres)'' in Switzerland, ''Exit'' in Canada, ''Pagine'', ''Offerta Speciale'', ''BINA'' and ''SUD'' in Italy, ''Nea Hestia'' in Greece, ''Artic'', ''Frau und Hund'' and ''hochroth'' in Germany, ''Wespennest'' in Austria, ''Sentinel Literary Quarterly'' in Great Britain, ''The Brooklyn Rail'' in the USA. As a translator, he helps to broaden familiarity in French among French speakers with Italian poets such as Mariangela Guatteri, Guido Mazzoni, Marco Caporali, Sacha Piersanti.

Bibliography

*Mai, atelier de l'agneau, 2001 () *Monstres tièdes, atelier de l'agneau, 2003 (), Mostri tiepidi, empirìa, 2013 (), Chliara terata, endymion, 2014 () *corps et riens, atelier de l'agneau, 2006 () *80, cythère critique, 2009 () *PSB 24, alidades, 2010 () *PSA 14, hochroth, 2011 () *Extinctions, hochroth, 2012 () *Successions, alidades, 2013 () *Bleu jour, les lieux dits, 2014 ''2Rives'' series, with Caroline Coppey () *à, alidades, 2015 () *Rideau, les lieux dits, 2020 ''Bandes d'artistes'' series, with Luisa Gardini *Sonnets des satiétés, rhuthmos, 2020 ()

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