Terez Bardaine: “Pointe aux Souls”

“I am leaving in exploration of this indefinable something that is called the soul,” said the Breton tezre bardaine about her new book. Similarly, To be up to the immense challenge she gives herself, she calls on the poem. For example, Because she says, “the poem is the point to souls”.

The soul is what signs our deep personality, liked to recall the writer and poet François Cheng, author of the famous book Of blade (Albin Michel 2016). Furthermore, He quoted in his work these words of his friend Jacques de Bourbon Busset: “The soul is the continuous. Furthermore, bass which resonates in each of us”. For example, We are there. Meanwhile, There is indeed, in fact, this continuous bass in the book of terez bardaine: “pointe aux souls” Terez Bardaine. Nevertheless, It is first fed by a family history experienced as close as possible to nature. The author has experienced the life of the farm. in contact with animals, starting with the cows which it evokes in the last chapter of her book entitled “Réminiscences”. Here she is feeding on the warmth of a cow as she attaches her. here she is telling us about the separation of her mother’s calf … so she can invite us “to perceive this vibration which connects us to the animal or vegetable world”.

The continuous bass of Terez Bardaine is also the link that remained carnal with the missing. Here a mother “by the grave of her son”. There a father whose figure she reconstitutes by sewing her own words extracted from the poetic work of Xavier Grall. Fine expert in Scandinavian literature (Ah! The Norwegian Tarjei Vesaas). she can also terez bardaine: “pointe aux souls” build a poem entitled “My consolation” in reference to the Swedish writer Stig Dagerman whose famous little test is known Our need for consolation is impossible to satisfy.

“Against Time Air”

The need for consolation of Terez Bardaine is immense. The poem is a salvation board by continuing “at all costs/to create writing/upside down/against time air”. It can. despite everything, go so far as to cultivate a form of confidence: “Time is in the poem/the eternal restart/both always first/when you live in the present”. This does not prevent denominating references to death at the heart of his book. “Think of what you cannot understand/this reduction to nothingness/bodies of those to whom we say goodbye”. Here it is even evoking its own disappearance. “Whether we make my inert/soup body terez bardaine: “pointe aux souls” for fish or sea birds”. It even quotes the word aquamation (in reverse of cremation) after the use of a process of “natural organic. reduction” of the body “.

Teraz Bardaine is not afraid to admit things. She tells us her anxieties. but also her fervers, with the anchor point that our lives can offer literature exploring the depths of the human soul. It pays tribute to those who have brought her a lot in life. “Souvenir is a perennial plant,” she tells us.

Pierre Tanguy.

The point to soulsTerez Bardaine, La Rumor Libre, 115 pages, 16 euros.