Demarcations by Jean Follain Translated from the French by Kurt Heinzelman (Host Publications, paperback)
Publication Date: September 30, 2011
Publisher Marketing: Poetry. Bilingual Edition. DEMARCATIONS (Territoires) is a book obsessed with the implications for history of post-war worlds, the ones that become newly "demarcated," whether out of victory or defeat. Although DEMARCATIONS was originally published in 1953 in the wake of the Second World War, the lucid yet subtle poems often look back to the rural and largely unautomated world of Follain's turn-of-the-century childhood. This was published in the middle of Follain's career, at the height of his poetic powers and was generally proclaimed by French critics to be his most masterful collection.
