Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers was a French writer and poet. He was born on 22 October 1939 in Versailles and died on 6 December 2013.
Biographysee the biography published in ''New Muses'' Official Organ of the Federation of International Poetry Associations, vol. X, N°1–4, 1986–1987, page 24
Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers went to high school at the collège Albert de Mun, at Michel Bouts' école du Gai Savoir, a school based on the principles of active learning, then at the co-ed lycée of Meaux, now Lycée Henri Moissan. In 1956, he entered a classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles, a two-year preparatory course for enrollment in one of France's "grandes écoles" at Paris' Lycée Henri-IV. Having graduated from ENSICA as an engineer in 1962, he spent twenty years working as an executive in the industrial sector and for a private firm running public services. After that, he became associate manager at Bossard Consultants. There, he contributed to develop social dynamics under Jean-Christian Fauvet's supervision. In 1992, he created a consultancy firm specialised in instructional design and based in Boulogne-Billancourt. He began to write in 1954, encouraged by the poet :fr:Jehan Despert|Jehan Despert who published some of his work in his Cahiers de l'Île de France and got him a column in the daily newspaperFigaro Since 1959, he has worked with cultural associations, among which:
from 1962 to 1974 the youth club, then the cultural center of Chelles where he worked with playwright, singer and actor Michel Heim, among others;
from 1978 to 1983 the ACILECE, a teachers' bookselling and publishing co-operative that was founded by the writer and poet Maurice Fombeure;
since 1983, the association La Jointée, which publishes the literary review Jointure, which he founded along with :fr:Jacques Arnold|Jacques Arnold, :fr:Georges Friedenkraft|Georges Friedenkraft, Daniel Sauvale and several other poets, and where he held the position of president and treasurer for several years;
since 2004 the Aire-Falguière theatre which he administrates.
from 2002 to 2008 he was neighbourhood councillor in the town of Boulogne-Billancourt, where he lives.;
as a representative of the ENSICA alumni, he played a role in merging the engineering schools SUPAERO and ENSICA, which formed the Institut supérieur de l'aéronautique et de l'espace in 2007, and in merging the two alumni associations, into the "Amicale ISAE," which he administrates.
Works
Poetry
Published works
* Le cristal opaque,, original drawings by Tardivo, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, collection Miroir oblique. Currently out of print, this book is now published under a Free Art License on the site Culture libre, without illustrations but with an introduction
* L'arbre parole, drawings by Odile Damon-Leclerc, José Millas-Martin, collection Grand Fond. Currently out of print, this book is now published under a Free Art License on the site Culture libre, without illustrations
* Le sculpteur d'eaux,, preface by Jacques Arnold, postface by Michel Martin de Villemer, followed by Travaux d'un sculpteur d'eaux, which received the Jacques Normand Award from the Society of Men of Letters of France
* La vigne adamantine
* L'opéra des tarots dorés, partly published in Soif de mots, tome 7, éditions du Brontosaure, January 2000
Regular and occasional contributions to many literary reviews :
Essay about the book Le Miel de l'abîme by Marc Alyn, in Jointure number 68, spring 2001
Reconstructive reading of Marc-Williams Debono's collection L'Épissure des mots, in Jointure no. 90, September 2009
Essays and articles
Comment lit-on Rimbaud, quand on a dix-sept ans ?, in Les cahiers de l'Alba, number 6-7 special issue about Arthur Rimbaud, second semester 2005, pages 101 to 106
Triangulation de la perception : le biface et l'os de seiche, in Plastir no. 15, June 2009
Publishing and poetic action
Directs the literary collection Les oeuvres jointes
Creates and runs writing workshops and poetic performances
Co-produced the CD-rom :fr:Henri Landier|Henri Landier ou la cohérence d'une oeuvre along with philosopher Bruno Picot
Creates and acts as webmaster for sites about writers and poets:
*, :fr:Nicole Louvier|Nicole Louvier, independent woman, poet, musician and novelist
*, :fr:Jacques Arnold|Jacques Arnold, poet, scholar and critic
*, Jacques Bergier, scientist, writer and science-fiction connoisseur
