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Dreaming the Miracle: Three French Prose Poets: Max Jacob, Jean Follain, Francis Ponge

Baudelaire laid the foundations for prose poetry as a genre in the 19th century, but it wasn’t until the avant garde movement in the first half of the 20th century that the prose poem began a widespread emergence on the international scene. The three poets in this volume were major factors in this emergence. Max Jacob (1876 — 1944), a writer of surrealist cubist fables; Francis Ponge (1899 — 1988), a master of the language of things; and Jean Follain (1903 — 1971), who merged the everyday with the historical to create a world rich in anniversaries, lead us to the strong and growing interest in the genre that we find so prevalent at the beginning of the 21st century.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 192
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781893996175
  • Genres
  • poetry
  • Release date
  • 2002