Cédric Demangeot: The Poet of Life and Death
Cédric Demangeot is known in France mainly for his poetry (Désert natal, Figures du refus, D’un puits, & cargaisons, & ferrailleurs), but the scope of his work is wide. He writes theatre pieces in verse (Ravachol, Philoctète, Salomé), books in prose (Pour personne, Un enfer) and essays on poetry (Gilbert-Lecomte, Rodanski, Valente, Dupin, Viarre).
The author translated a wordplay by Bryan Larry Se pend, several of Shakespeare’s sonnets, and published translations of several poetry collections (in cooperation with Bengali writer Lokenath Bhattachary). Born in Tour in 1974, lives in Ariège, a French part of the Pyrenees. Between 2001-2005 managed literary journal Moriturus and has taken care of the publishing house Fissile since 2003. Soon, an anthology of his poetry will be published in Czech version (translator Petr Zavadil). With his work, the author tries to: “grasp the world as it is, with all its wildness, impossibility, untransferable immediateness – and with man having to put up with it.“