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.Maloney, Dennis is the author of 'Dreaming the Miracle Three French Prose Poets Max Jacob, Jean Follain, Francis Ponge', published 2003 under ISBN 9781893996175 and ISBN 1893996174.