Shortlisted for the 2011 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translaton Prize The poetry of Jean Follain (1903-1971) is increasingly seen, by poets and critics in France and by his foreign admirers, as central to French poetry’s change of course after Surrealism. The writer Henri Thomas spoke of Follain as a poet “qui parle d’autre chose”, who speaks of things outside himself; he admired his freedom from rhetoric. Follain’s short, down-to-earth, subtle poems, many of which set out to preserve the lost rural world of his pre-war Norman childhood, have influenced a new generation of French poets. To anyone who still believes that modern French poetry is abstruse and over-cerebral, Follain’s memorable poems are the answer.

Jean Follain: 130 Poems

Literature & Fiction

Follain, Jean

Poetry

Anvil Press Poetry

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the French by Kurt Heinzelman. DEMARCATIONS (Territoires) is a book obsessed with the implications for history of post-war worlds, the ones that become newly "demarcated," whether out of victory or defeat. Although DEMARCATIONS was originally published in 1953 in the wake of the Second World War, the lucid yet subtle poems often look back to the rural and largely unautomated world of Follain's turn-of-the-century childhood. This was published in the middle of Follain's career, at the height of his poetic powers and was generally proclaimed by French critics to be his most masterful collection.

Demarcations

Host Publications

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the French by Kurt Heinzelman. DEMARCATIONS (Territoires) is a book obsessed with the implications for history of post-war worlds, the ones that become newly "demarcated," whether out of victory or defeat. Although DEMARCATIONS was originally published in 1953 in the wake of the Second World War, the lucid yet subtle poems often look back to the rural and largely unautomated world of Follain's turn-of-the-century childhood. This was published in the middle of Follain's career, at the height of his poetic powers and was generally proclaimed by French critics to be his most masterful collection.

Canisy

Logbridge-Rhodes

Selected Prose (English and French Edition)

History & Criticism

Throughout WWII, French poet Jean Follain wrote poems that revisit the provinces of personal and cultural history. His quietly phrased, brief devotions are -described as "miniatures," yet are monumental, capturing the pressure of history upon daily moments. By reducing the world to its small objects, every detail, every image becomes imbued with meaning.
This bilingual volume, celebrating the centennial of Jean Follain’s birth, is translated by W.S. Merwin, who writes in his introduction: "Follain’s concern is finally with the mystery of the present—the mystery which gives the recalled concrete details their form, at once luminous and removed, when they are seen at last in their places, as they seem to be in the best of his poems."

Transparence of the World (A Kagean Book) (French Edition)

Copper Canyon Press

Exister / Territoires

Gallimard]

Book Description\nJean Follain a longtemps rêvé Paris. Mais son Paris n'est pas celui des guides. Au gré de ses déambulations, il observe, s'imprègne de la ville et de ses énigmes. Il va de cafés en cimetières en frôlant les squares, les monuments, s'engouffrant dans un passage pour changer d'itinéraire à l'improviste. Poésie au cœur, il saisit et offre les mille et un instants de sa vie de flâneur urbain, perpétuellement à l'affût de l'insaisissable réalité des choses. « Tous ceux qui aiment vraiment Paris trouvent un jour une étoile. » Un livre pour tous les amoureux de Paris !\nFrom the Back Cover\nJean Follain a longtemps rêvé Paris. Mais son Paris n'est pas celui des guides. Au gré de ses déambulations, il observe, s'imprègne de la ville et de ses énigmes. Il va de cafés en cimetières en frôlant les squares, les monuments, s'engouffrant dans un passage pour changer d'itinéraire à l'improviste. Poésie au cœur, il saisit et offre les mille et un instants de sa vie de flâneur urbain, perpétuellement à l'affût de l'insaisissable réalité des choses. « Tous ceux qui aiment vraiment Paris trouvent un jour une étoile. » Un livre pour tous les amoureux de Paris !

Paris (0000)

Literary

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