Michèle Métail Biography
The French poet Michèle Métail was born in Paris in 1950. She read German and Chinese at university and later became affiliated to the renowned OuliPo group – an extremely divergent group of writers, all of whom adhered to the same basic literary principle in that they observed self-imposed writing constraints.
tracks, trips, rumble rimmed
in steel rails and grey, ties
continuous course of ballast
rolling and unwinding on curves
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danger of wear and tear, leave stranger
thanks to sudden favor, irruption
looked out after perspectives
by doorway where these petrified
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where from a train ready to depart
arrives laminar crossing stretched
over the said-town's long course
its name, the appropriate travel term
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on the map, town's flattening
you are here, in the empty circle
encircled, red and carmine circle
image of hypotheses projected
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from map where this place disappears
first vertically with dimensions
by pieces bringing to face standing
in space made heavy by volumes
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