IMPROVISATION #32
JEAN FAUTRIER'S LEGACY
(1898-1964)

Your language years
are becoming clearer
as an illustrator
painter and sculptor
meeting Malraux,
living in 1939
on the eve of the war
in Bordeaux
arrested by the Gestapo
he found refuge
in Chatenay-Malabry
writing his "Hostages"
about victims
of fascism
worked on "Illuminations"
by Rimbaud
and on Dante's "Inferno."