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Author: Follain, Jean
Highly regarded yet little known, the work of French poet Jean Follain 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 to World War I, most never to return. This volume, arrange chronologically, favours Follain's works and prose poems not previously translated.The embers of that agrarian world were further extinguished by increasing industrialisation and another global war. “There are almost no more horses,” Follain wrote in 1960. In this new volume, Follain’s poems feel timely, as the ravages of our human-centric worldview upon plants and animals mount toward irreversibility, and as war unfolds where it has so many times before.
ISBN 9798991298858. The Song Cave. pb. 98 pages. 19.1 x 14 cm.
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Highly regarded yet little known, the work of French poet Jean Follain 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 to World War I, most never to return. This volume, arrange chronologically, favours Follain's works and prose poems not previously translated.The embers of that agrarian world were further extinguished by increasing industrialisation and another global war. “There are almost no more horses,” Follain wrote in 1960. In this new volume, Follain’s poems feel timely, as the ravages of our human-centric worldview upon plants and animals mount toward irreversibility, and as war unfolds where it has so many times before.
ISBN 9798991298858. The Song Cave. pb. 98 pages. 19.1 x 14 cm.
available