André Velter [SEP] native language
André Velter
André Velter (born 1945), French poet, was born in Signy-l'Abbaye in the Ardennes région and was educated in Charleville and Paris. Having begun his first journeys in 1955 through Europe and the Middle East, he has traveled through Afghanistan, Tibet, China and India. As a result, his poetry displays a varied and colorful relation to the places, sounds and rhythms of the cultures he has visited.
Velter has experimented with improvised songs, "polyphonic" poetry, and has composed a
, éd. la Différence, translated by Anne Wade Minkowski préface by Jacques Lacarrière.
- 1991: Mémoire du Vent ( anthology), éd. Poésie/Gallimard, translated by C. Abdelamir, Claude Estéban, S. Sautreau, André Velter, Anne Wade Minkowski and the author, préface by A. Velter. Reprinted in 1994, 97, 99, 2000, 03, 05.
- 1994: La madâ'a by Adonis ; trad. de l'arabe par Anne Wade Minkowski ; dessins de Garanjoud.
- 1994: Tablette