In search of the essential: the naked poetry of Henri Bosco

Abstract

An approach to Henri Bosco´s poetry —the least known of this author’s genres— through a volume of short compositions, Des Voix des Nuages, des songes ... reveals a naked poetry, free of thematic artifice and apparently marked by stylistic simplicity. His poetry transports us from the tangible nature surrounding the author into his soul. Deeply immersed in the imaginary ego of the poet, the most intimate feelings, dreams, and mysteries emerge from the soul, like an inventory of the accumulated wisdom in his long and prolific life, divulged in these poems written a year before his passing.