Franck André Jamme

Franck André Jamme (21 November 1947 – 1 October 2020) was a French poet.[1]

Franck André Jamme
Born21 November 1947
Died1 October 2020(2020-10-01) (aged 72)
NationalityFrench
OccupationPoet

Biography

He specialized in the tribal arts of contemporary India, La Pléiade, and René Char. Since 1981, he has published twelve collections containing poems and fragments. He was also a translator of, among others, Lokenath Bhattacharya and Udayan Vajpeyi.

For his works, Jamme received the Grand prix de poésie de la SGDL in 2005. The work Forêt sensible was based on Jamme's Nouveaux exercices and Au secret, the latter of which was written specifically for the company Souffleurs, commandos poétiques.[2]

Franck André Jamme died on 1 October 2020 at the age of 72.[3]

A page from Franck André Jamme's "New Exercises", published by Wave Books in 2008 in Charles Borkhuis' translation

Bibliography
  • L'Ombre des biens à venir (1981)
  • Absence de résidence et pratique du songe (1985)
  • La Récitation de l'oubli (1986)
  • Un diamant sans étonnement (1998)
  • Nouveaux exercices (2002)
  • Extraits de la vie des scarabées (2004)
  • De la Distraction (2005)
  • Mantra des réalités invisibles et des doigts troués de la vue (2006)
  • Au secret (2010)
  • Tantra Song: Tantric Painting from Rajashtan (editor) (2011)

References
  1. "Jamme, Franck André (1947-....)". BnF Catalogue général (in French).
  2. "Forêt sensible". Les Souffleurs commandos poétiques (in French). Archived from the original on 10 June 2016.
  3. Iseult Cahen-Patron (2 October 2020). "Décès du poète et spécialiste d'art brut Franck André Jamme". Connaissance des Arts (in French).
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