Claude Minière's 'Hymne' Published by Éditions Tarabuste

Claude Minière's poetry collection 'Hymne' has been published by Éditions Tarabuste. The title is provocative in a depressed era, questioning the nature of hymns as songs to gods who give what will die. Minière, aware of the proliferation of idols after the death of gods, aims to be present to the world's presence. The poem's language is the breath of reason, an echo of assonances and colors, unfolding a treasure of sensations and visions. It occupies a space where the divine in humans lodges at the heart of things, rediscovering childhood. Minière states, 'I cross the time that crosses me,' and his odyssey of place and formula occurs in approval, away from ruin, negative theologies, or trendy networks. References to Greek thought and German Romanticism act in an epiphanic present. The poem's time constantly cuts history, and history penetrates the poem's time. Since 'Lucrèce' (Flammarion, 1997), Minière's poetic path has been difficult and demanding, questioning the ground we stand on without prohibition. Poetry works on the body itself toward 'song,' mixing brutality and rationality.