Michel Deguy

1930–2022 (age 92)

Biography

Michel Deguy fashioned verse that pondered the everyday and the eternal, blending philosophical reflection with a vivid lyricism that earned him a central place in contemporary French poetry.

Beyond his own writing, he nurtured literary communities as an editor and critic, always attuned to the communal pulse of language, so that his final repose at Montparnasse marks the end of a deeply conversational artistic life.

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