Into the Deep Street: Seven Modern French Poets 1938-2008
Contemporary French poetry has long been tagged as being overly cerebral and hermetic. But there exists a very different, thriving tradition which is too often muffled by noisier movements like Surrealism or Minimalism. Into the Deep Street’ gives voice to this tradition. What links the poets is an acute awareness of the existential instant in both its inward workings and also, crucially, in its outwardness – in the street, on the move.\ From the key figure of Jean Follain, who can freeze an...
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The first facing-text anthology to focus on this most interesting group of recent French poets.
