Demarcations by Jean Follain and translated by Kurt Heinzelman

This is poetry from France.

Demarcations by Jean Follain translated by Kurt Heinzelman is published by Host Publications. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2011.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780924047886E12.

Demarcations, by Jean Follain and translated by Kurt Heinzelman, gives English readers a title concerned with borders, distinctions, and the small lines that separate one thing from another. Follain’s poetry is often valued for its attention to objects, memory, and the charged stillness of ordinary scenes. A demarcation can be political, physical, temporal, or emotional; it can mark a property line or the edge between childhood and history. I would read this book for its patient object-world, the way a poem can make a table, tool, field, or room carry more time than it should be able to hold. Heinzelman’s translation likely preserves the quiet density that makes Follain’s work endure.

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