Périer, Odilon-Jean (1901-1928)

A Belgian French speaking poet who was born and died in Brussels. Born into a rich and cultivated bourgeois family, he was forced to abandon his studies at the Free University of Brussels, but quickly launched into literature in publishing La Vertu par le chant (1921) and Le Citadin ou Eloge de Bruxelles (1924). His poetry collections stand out for a research into language which in no way affects the concern for form. Prose poetry an also be picked out in Le Passage des anges (1926). In his short life he moreover mixed with Franz Hellens and Henri Michaux and, close to the daily realities of the city of his birth, he also shone because, amongst other things, the composition of the poem Je t'offre un verre d'eau glacée...