Jacques Réda

Jacques Réda (born 24 January 1929 in Lunéville) is a French poet, jazz critic, and flâneur. He was chief editor of the Nouvelle Revue Française from 1987 to 1996.

Works
Amen (1968)
Récitatif (1971)
Les Ruines de Paris (1977)
L’Improviste, une lecture du jazz (1980) 
L’Herbe des talus (1984)
Celle qui vient à pas légers (1985)  
Jouer le jeu (L’Improviste II) (1985) 
Retour au calme (1989) (Return to Calm, trans. by Aaron Prevots, 2007, Host Publications, Inc.)
Le Sens de la marche (1990)
Aller aux mirabelles, Gallimard (1991) (English translation: The Mirabelle Pickers, trans. by Jennie Feldman, Anvil Press Poetry, London 2012)

References
 France, Peter (Ed.) (1995). The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Oxford: Clarendon Press. .
 Into the Deep Street. Seven Modern French Poets. 1938–2008, Edited and translated by Jennie Feldman and Stephen Romer, Anvil, London 2009.
 The Mirabelle Pickers, Translated by Jennie Feldman, Anvil, London 2012

Category:People from Lunéville
Category:1929 births
Category:Living people
Category:Winners of the Prix Broquette-Gonin (literature)
Category:Prix Goncourt de la Poésie winners
Category:Prix Valery Larbaud winners
Category:French music critics
Category:20th-century French poets
Category:French male poets
Category:Jazz writers
Category:20th-century French male writers
Category:French male non-fiction writers