Follain, Jean
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Transparence of the World (Kagean Book)
Jean Follain
Manufacturer: Copper Canyon Press
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Book Description
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."
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Poet and Translator: A Perfect Marriage.......2006-12-24
Fortunate we are that W.S. Merwin commits as much time to translating other poets from other countries and times as he commits to writing his own magnificent works. His gifts as a poet make him far more than a translator: Merwin finds the seed of intention of the poet's works he embraces and manages to lift the thoughts intact into the English language.
This very fine compilation of the poetry of Jean Follain has been gleaned from nine books of poems, curating the best of Follain's poems into a single heady volume. The poems are brief, address history and the effects of time passing with an economy of words that distill portions of moments into indelibly whispered thoughts.
OCTOBER THOUGHTS
'How one loves
this great wine
that one drinks all alone
when the evening illumines its coppered hills
not a hunter now
stalks the lowland game
the sisters of our friends
seem more beautiful
at the same time there is a threat of war
an insect pauses
then goes on.'
Read it several times and the atmosphere of World War II in the tremulous French countryside is palpable. And this is only one of many. Merwin allows us the pleasure of reading the poems in both French and English, a fine concept that Copper Canyon Press continues to pursue. A superb collaboration of poetic sharing. Grady Harp, December 06
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The Blue Boat 2 'Twelve Poems'
Jean] [The Blue Boat] [Follain
Manufacturer: The Blue Boat 2, 1983
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000J0U40W |
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Transparence of the world;: Poems
Jean Follain
Manufacturer: Atheneum
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ASIN: B0006CPCXM |
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Exister, suivi de, Territoires
Jean Follain , and Henri Thomas
Manufacturer: Gallimard
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: 2070301052 |
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Selected Prose
Jean Follain
Manufacturer: Logbridge-Rhodes
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ASIN: 0937406341 |
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Canisy
Jean Follain
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ASIN: 0937406066 |
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D'Apres Tout: Poems (Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation)
Jean Follain
Manufacturer: Princeton Univ Pr
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0691064768 |
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Le magasin pittoresque (Essais)
Jean Follain
Manufacturer: Amiot-Lenganey
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ASIN: 2909033023 |
Authors:
- Follett, Ken
- Fontane, Theodor
- Carolyn Forché
- Forché, Carolyn
- Ford, John
- Ford, Richard
- Forester, C.S.
- Forster, E. M.
- Forster, Margaret
- Forsyth, Frederick
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