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

Translated by William Kulik, Beth Archer Brombert, Mary Feeney, & William Matthews

Prose Poetry / Cultural Studies
$17.00 192 pages ISBN 1-893996-17-4

"Which of us... has not dreamed of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical, without rhyme... supple... rugged...?" -Baudelaire

Baudelaire laid the foundation for the prose poem 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 poets in this volume were major factors in the emergence of the prose poem. Max Jacob, a writer of surrealist cubist fables; Francis Ponge, a master of the language of things; and Jean Follain 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.