Earthly: Selected Poems of Jean Follain

Follain captures the destruction of both earth and society with his heartbreaking, sparse verses evocative of Reverdy and Apollinaire

Highly regarded yet little known, the work of French poet Jean Follian (1903-71) evokes a specific consciousness, with intense affection for the world around it, surveying the landscape and its species, yet intimate with the most minute particulars. Follain was of that generation who watched the men and animal-powered conveyances of his rural childhood go off ...