Demarcations

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the French by Kurt Heinzelman. 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.