The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry

Pierre Alféri 1963–

paris, france

A

poet, essayist, and translator, Alféri has frequently collaborated with

the visual artists Suzanne Doppelt and Jacques Julien. With Doppelt

he founded the literary review Détail. He also founded La Revue de

littérature générale with Olivier Cadiot. Recently he has begun producing films

with the musician Rodolphe Burger, of the group Kat Onoma. In these perfor-

mances, Alféri reads text as Burger plays the guitar, against a montage of flicker-

ing Hollywood films. Principal works: Les Allures naturelles, 1991; Le Chemin

familier du poisson combatif, 1992; Kub or, 1994; Sentimentale journée, 1997; La

Berceuse de Broadway, 2001.