Earthly Collected Poems Taking the cleaving mechanism of

Taking the cleaving mechanism of translation as a point of departure (“ossia” means “or rather” and is used to indicate an alternative way of playing a passage in a musical score)

Kinderen zullen dan weer de heerlijke gedichten van Chantefables (Zangfabels) en Chantefleurs (Zangbloemen) noemen

de eerste in Nederlandse vertaling

mijn hart toegerust met leemtes

Earthly Collected Poems Taking the cleaving mechanism ofJean Follain (trans. Andrew Seguin) Highly regarded and little known, the work of French poet Jean Follain evokes a specific consciousness, with intense affection for the world around it, surveying the landscape and its species, yet intimate with the most minute particularsthe umbels of plants, an insect crawling up a boot, the woman sitting on a hearth asking why beings and things and not nothing. Born in 1903 in Canisy, a small town in Normandy,