One Hundred Thirty Poems

"Family Dinner" When the maid placed one plate on another it made a clear noise from the depth of warm days with the shining of silver forks the blue veins and the ghosts afloat reflected in the wax. Christopher Middleton has chosen poems spanning the whole of Jean Follain’s work.. Born in 1903 and raised in Normandy, Jean Follain died in a street accident in Paris in 1971. His poetry is now recognized as central to French poetry’s change of course after surrealism. He has influenced a generation of poets with his short, subtle, and down-to-earth poems, here elegantly translated and introduced.