Hubin, Christian 1941–

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Hubin, Christian 1941–

PERSONAL: Born September 18, 1941, in Marchin, Belgium. Education: University of Liège, graduated.

ADDRESSES: Agent—c/o Author Mail, Éditions Josée Corti, 11 rue de Médicis, Paris 75006, France.

CAREER: Journal des Poètes, member of editorial committee; affiliated with Charles Plisnier Foundation.

MEMBER: Society of Men of Letters of France, International Biennales of Poetry.

AWARDS, HONORS: Schmitz prize, 1969; Flouquet prize, 1970; Antonin Artaud prize, 1975.

WRITINGS:

Orphéon, F.D.R., 1962.

Musique, 1963.

Etudes pour les deux mains, Ray Graf, 1964.

Soleils de nuit, Marche Romane, 1964.

Messe pour une fin du monde, Thyrse, 1965.

Le chant décapite la nuit, H. Fagne (Brussels, Belgium), 1968.

Prélude à une apócalypse, Encres Vives, 1970.

Terre ultime, H. Fagne (Brussels, Belgium), 1970.

Traverse-Pierre, E. Thomas, 1971.

En marge du poème, Vodaine (Baslieux, France), 1972.

Coma des sourdes veillées, Les Lettres Belges (Liège, Belgium), 1973.

Demeure consumée, Presse à Poèmes, 1973.

Pierre Gabriel (criticism), Subervie, 1973.

La parole sans lieu: suivi de Demeure consumée, La Fenêtre Ardente (Ambly, Belgium), 1974.

Alliages, 1974.

Éclaireur, Fond de la Ville (Aywaille, Belgium), 1979.

Regarder sans voir: récit, Puyraimond (Geneva, Switzerland), 1979.

Epitomé, F.D.R., 1981.

A perte de vue; précédé de, L'enracinée, Sud (Marseille, France), 1983.

La Fontaine noire, T. Bouchard, 1983.

Le point radiant, Hautécriture (Poitiers, France), 1986.

La forêt en fragments, José Corti (Paris, France), 1987.

Hors, J. Corti (Paris, France), 1989.

Continuum, José Corti (Paris, France), 1991.

Parlant seul, José Corti (Paris, France), 1993.

Ce qui est, José Corti (Paris, France), 1995.

Maintenant, José Corti (Paris, France), 1998.

Personne; précédé de Le point radiant, José Corti (Paris, France), 1998.

Eclipses, Labor (Brussels, Belgium), 1999.

Tombées, illustrated by Claude Faivre, José Corti (Paris, France), 2000.

Le sens des perdants, José Corti (Paris, France), 2002.

Venant, José Corti (Paris, France), 2002.

Also author of Fallen and Marvellous Collection. Contributor to periodicals, including Carbone, Encres Vives, Odradek, Solaire, Sud, Dire, Haut-Pays, La Tour de Feu, Fantasmagie, Nouvelles à la Main, Espaces, Marginales, Journal des Poètes, and Marche Romane.

SIDELIGHTS: Belgian author Christian Hubin began his career as a published poet writing in French in the 1960s. Nearly four decades later, in 1999, reviewer Logan E. Whalen in World Literature Today called Hubin "one of Europe's finest contemporary poets."

Whalen described the 185 works in Hubin's collection Maintenant as being primarily short poems, five to twenty words in length, written in free verse. The critic noted that the poems' placement on the page and their punctuation were "obvious concerns" for Hubin, and that the poet's word groupings reinforce "the overall expanding and constricting movement of the collection." Whalen characterized the volume's collective effect as "a struggle between the mobile, reinforced by an abundant repetition of vocabulary that evokes movement … and the static." He recommended Maintenant to those familiar with Hubin's work as a rewarding example of the poet's fully developed style.