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Jean Follain130 PoemsJean FollainTranslated by Christopher Middleton
Imprint: Anvil Press Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (176 pages) (Pub. Nov 2010) 9780856464201 Out of Stock
The Inventor of the Printing Press for Pierre-Albert Birot He held between two irritable fingers Translated by Christopher Middleton The poetry of Jean Follain (1903–1971) is increasingly recognized, by French poets and critics and by his foreign admirers, as central to French poetry’s change of course after the Surrealist period. The poet and novelist Henri Thomas wrote of Follain as one of the poets‘qui parle d’autre chose’, rather than of himself; he admired Follain as a poet remarkably free of rhetoric. Follain’s short, down-
Awards won by Jean Follain
Short-listed, 2011 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize (Jean Follain)
Praise for Christopher Middleton
'a poet with a disconcerting knack of making it new in almost every poem'
John Lucas, New Statesman 'His work is at once rich and sparse, elegantly economic in its subtle shifts from discrete object to discrete object, yet, by contrast with mainstream English realism, striking for the boldness and brio of its imaginings.' Terry Eagleton, Stand 'Metrically inventive and various, these poems are remarkably alive to "the unknown thing beside us", they listen for "the due sound", and, as if watching birds, register "the timed flight of words". A motto for reading Middleton's work might be: purify the source, then trust to luck.' Denis Donoghue, London Review of Books 'Middleton is amongst the most consistently inventive, original, and audacious of the so-called 'experimental' or 'innovative' poets of these past twenty-five years.' August Kleinzahler, Threepenny Review 'The poet's ancestry, his Englishness, is relegated without denial. But the movement, whether it is generated in America, Provence or Cappadocia, is always of encounter...if an eroticism, with the inner and the outer, a profound in-touchness with the multiplicities of existence... a mark of all important poets' Tom Lowenstein 'Poems, translations, essays - Christopher Middletonâs are among the most visited books on my shelves; always dependable for re-exciting the possibilities of language.' Jennie Feldman |
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