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Transparence of the world / Jean Follain ; selected and translated by W.S. Merwin.
Van Pelt Library PQ2611.O612 A25 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Follain, Jean, 1903-1971.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections. English & French
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Follain, Jean, 1903-1971--Translations into English.
- Follain, Jean.
- Follain, Jean, 1903-1971.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 131 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, [2003]
- Language Note:
- Bilingual text in English and French.
- Summary:
- A bilingual edition celebrating the centennial of Follain's birth, translated by one of America's great poets. 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 presure 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."
- Contents:
- Voluntary Mutilation 3
- Landscape of a Child on His Way to the Place of the Regents 5
- Appeal to the Red-Haired Soldiers 7
- Death of a Ferret 9
- Father and Daughter 11
- Last Judgment 13
- The Women Who Sew Livery 15
- The Song of the Dragoon 17
- Imperial Evenings 19
- Free Growths 21
- Preview of Death 23
- Evenings of Ink 25
- Dusk 27
- Signs for Travellers 29
- Speech Alone 31
- The Beast 33
- The Pyramid 35
- Dawn 37
- Housewives 39
- The Barn-Owl 41
- Existence 43
- Matter 45
- The Theater of Tableaux Vivants 47
- The Useful 49
- The Silence 51
- Asia 53
- The Secret 55
- Domestic Life 57
- The School and Nature 59
- Death 61
- The Egg 63
- October Thoughts 65
- The Students' Dog 67
- The Plate 69
- Humans 71
- The Books and Love 73
- Tragic Winter 75
- Fraternities 77
- Conspiracy 79
- Life 81
- The Woman and the Child in Costume 83
- Wall 85
- Trials 87
- Cadences 89
- The Voices 91
- End of a Century 93
- Another Time 95
- Meal 97
- The Evening Suit 99
- Hollow Daydream 101
- Show 103
- The Square 105
- Underground Palace 107
- Couple 109
- Signs 111
- Eve 113
- Exile 115
- Black Meat 117
- Imperial Hamlet 119
- Solitaries 121
- World's End 123
- The Tragic in Time 125
- Thief 127.
- Notes:
- "A Kage-an book."
- ISBN:
- 155659190X
- OCLC:
- 51172102
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