Isabelle Baladine Howald lives and works in Strasbourg, where she pursued her studies in philosophy and now directs the "Philosophical and Literary Encounters" of the Librairie Kleber. From 1980 to 1982 she edited the literary journal ANIMA (Jacques Bremond publishers). Her books of poetry include Nuit d'amour un livre (1985), Les noms, tres bas (1986), both published by editions A Passage, Lettre de Pomeranie (1996) and Les Etats de la demolition (2002), published by editions Jacques Bremond. Our present volume, Secret des souffles, is her most recent book (editions Melville, 2004).