Guy Goffette

Goffette's poetry has been compared to Verlaine (of whom Goffette wrote a fictional "biography") – the contemporary French poet Yves Bonnefoy remarked Goffette is an heir to Verlaine. A poet who very courageously has decided to remain faithful to his own personal life, in its humblest moments. He keeps things simple, he is marvelously able to capture the emotions and desires common to us all. Goffette is without question one of the best poets of the present moment in France. Goffette's short fiction (récits) often reimagine historic figures – the poet Paul Verlaine in Verlaine d'ardoise et de pluie (1995) and again in L'autre Verlaine (2007) or the painter Pierre Bonnard through his muse Marthe in Elle, par bonheur et toujours nue (published in English as Forever Nude in 2008). For several years, the American poet and critic Marilyn Hacker has translated a number of his poems, which have appeared in The Paris Review, TriQuarterly, Barrow Street, and Poetry London. A bilingual anthology of her translations of Goffette's poetry, Charlestown Blues, was published in 2007 by University of Chicago Press In addition to his poetry and his fiction, Goffette was a prolific essayist and a critic who regularly contributed to the Nouvelle Revue Française. Goffette died on 28 March 2024, at the age of 76.

The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is literature, poetry and publishing house. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are narrative. Distinctions recorded are Henri Mondor Prize, Mallarmé Prize, Grand prix de poésie de la SGDL and Prix Victor Rossel.

• Name — Guy Goffette • Born — 18 April 1947 • Birthplace — Gaume, Belgium • Died — 28 March 2024 • Occupation — Poet, writer

• Quotidien rouge, 1971. • Nomadie, 1979. • Huit muses neuves et nues, poems about the photographs by Miloslav Stibor, 1983. • Solo d'ombres, 1983. • Prologue à une maison sans murs, 1983. • Le dormeur près du toit, 1983. • La vie promise, 1991,(translations from the Italian "La vita promessa") • Le pêcheur d'eau, Ed. Gallimard, Paris, 1995, coll. Blanche. Rééd. 2001. • Icarus, (with a bilingual translation by Tucker Zimmerman, 2000. • Solo d'ombres précédé de Nomadie, 2003. • L'adieu aux lisières, 2007

• Partance, 1995. • Verlaine d'ardoise et de pluie, 1996. • L'ami du jars, 1997. • Elle, par bonheur et toujours nue, 1998 published in English as Forever Nude in a translation by Frank Wynne • Partance et autres lieux suivi de Nema problema, 2000. • Un été autour du cou, 2001. • Une enfance lingère, 2006. • L'autre Verlaine, 2007.