"The poetry of Jean Follain" (1903-1971) is increasingly recognized, by French poets and critics and by his foreign admirers, as central to French poetry's change of course after the Surrealist period. The poet and novelist Henri Thomas wrote of Foll...

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 v...