The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry

ANDRÉ VELTER

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Restriction: a light movement of loss from feet to weight. Where to
put the feet. No longer bottomless. Put hands, put feet. Say that not
by this, not by what’s that. That you can’t. It’s not done this way, it’s
done this place to this place by walking.

Finite state automaton (l.m.) Finite state automaton Finite state automaton is a set of
nodes representing states and the arcs that link these nodes

And then progressively, it is progressively, but there’s no other movement.

To go from acre to square foot multiply by

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The plot is dangerously shrinking. The field and the nutrients missing.

—stacy doris

André Velter 1945–

signy l’abbaye, france

A

poet, journalist, and essayist, Velter began his studies at the Sorbonne

in philosophy but soon turned to modern history. In 1963 Velter moved

to Paris, where he met fellow poet and sometime-collaborator Serge

Sautreau. The two were first published in the review Les Temps modernes in 1965.

Velter and Sautreau went on to participate in gatherings organized by the review,

which included such participants as Georges Perec, Annie Le Brun, and Marcel

Bénabou. Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Bernard Pingaud helped