A prominent figure in Swiss French-speaking poetry and literary life alongside publisher Jean Hutter, Anne Perrier’s poetic vocation was precocious and recognised very early. In her childhood bedroom, she dreamt of becoming a composer: she transposed music, rhythm and the breath she carried within her into sound-words, images and inhabited silences. All the polyphony of the world can be heard in her strangely solitary singing. Her poetry is thus like a gate to the invisible, but...
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