Dreaming the Miracle

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

By: Dennis Maloney (Editor), William Kulik (Translator), Beth Archer Brombert (Translator)

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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.

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Preface: The Prose Poetry of Max Jacob, Francis Ponge and Jean Follain	p. 13
Introduction	p. 21
from Le cornet a des
War	p. 26
Searching for the Traitor	p. 27
The Truly Miraculous	p. 28
The Tree-Chewers	p. 29
The Bibliophile	p. 30
La Rue Ravignan	p. 31
The Beggar Woman of Naples	p. 32
Success of Confession	p. 33
Latude-Etude	p. 34
The Judgment of Women	p. 35
Poem in a Style Not Mine	p. 36
A Christmas Story	p. 37
Metempsychosis	p. 38
A Touch of Modernism by Way of a Conclusion	p. 39
Mystery of the Sky	p. 40
Tale With No Moral	p. 41
What Happens Via the Flute	p. 42
Let's Bring Back the Old Themes	p. 43
Errors of Mercy	p. 44
Fake News! New Graves!	p. 45
Poem	p. 46
Literary Standards	p. 47
A Bit of Art Criticism	p. 48
Untitled	p. 49
The Real Loss	p. 50
Philosophical Return to What No Longer Exists	p. 51
The Terrible Present	p. 52
from Visions infernales
Hell Has Gradations	p. 53
Fear	p. 54
Warnings	p. 55
The Bloody Nun	p. 56
from Ballades
Ballad of the Night Visitor	p. 57
from Derniers poemes
In China	p. 59
If Guillaume's Death Had Been Christian	p. 60
Graveside Chat	p. 61
The Soul and the Mind	p. 62
Noble or Common	p. 63
Mimi Pinson, Octogenarian	p. 64
The Pilgrims at Emmaus	p. 65
Customs 1944	p. 66
Pre-War	p. 67
The Castle of Painbis	p. 68
Several Judgments by Our Set...	p. 69
Town Crier	p. 70
My Soul	p. 71
Reconstruction	p. 72
Introduction	p. 75
from Taking the Side of Things
The End of Autumn	p. 82
Poor Fishermen	p. 83
Rum of the Ferns	p. 83
Blackberries	p. 84
The Crate	p. 85
The Candle	p. 86
The Cigarette	p. 86
The Orange	p. 87
The Oyster	p. 88
The Pleasures of the Door	p. 89
Fire	p. 89
The Cycle of the Seasons	p. 90
The Mollusk	p. 91
Snails	p. 92
The Butterfly	p. 96
Moss	p. 97
Water	p. 98
Notes Toward a Shell	p. 100
The Pebble	p. 104
from Pieces
The Shrimp in Every (and All in a) State	p. 111
The Shrimp Exaggerated	p. 117
Abode of the Gray Shrimp	p. 119
Shrimp One	p. 123
Shrimp Two	p. 124
The Pigeon	p. 126
The Frog	p. 127
The Horse	p. 128
Manure	p. 131
The Goat	p. 132
The Earth	p. 136
from The Prairie
Notes on the Making of The Prairie	p. 138
The Prairie	p. 143
Uncollected Poems
O This is Why I Have Lived	p. 148
Introduction	p. 151
from Canisy
There was a door...	p. 157
The photograph of my grandfather...	p. 157
The snuffbox belonging to...	p. 158
A very distant image...	p. 158
I was five years old...	p. 159
Replete with parish affairs...	p. 159
The woodbin in my maternal grandmother's...	p. 160
There were sparrows and fruits...	p. 160
The shed where the casks...	p. 161
My maternal grandmother...	p. 162
The mighty edifices of nightfall...	p. 163
There were also days...	p. 163
A World Rich in Anniversaries
Opening his hands...	p. 165
A boy is troubled...	p. 166
The landscapes they walk through...	p. 167
The cress-peddler...	p. 168
As in the city theater curtains rise...	p. 169
There's no more war...	p. 170
On Easter Sunday...	p. 171
To know how a leaf feels...	p. 172
One day I suddenly notice...	p. 173
A chant goes up...	p. 174
The fineness of things...	p. 175
She stops short at something...	p. 176
Close attention to things...	p. 177
Should the schoolboy...	p. 178
There are moments...	p. 179
The women washing dishes...	p. 180
Some territories are neither...	p. 181
Hamlets still keep the smell...	p. 182
This plant, so exceptional...	p. 183
You can get the impression...	p. 184
The county groundskeeper...	p. 185
Store windows start to light up...	p. 186
A crossroads...	p. 187
Flies die on the sticky ribbon...	p. 188
There are those who would like...	p. 189
During the summer of 1910...	p. 190
For years on end...	p. 191
In 1880, hair counts a lot...	p. 192
One evening at the turn of the century...	p. 193
In houses one approaches carefully...	p. 194
At dinner, a civil servant...	p. 195
The sound of wind...	p. 196
School children holding hands...	p. 197
If a child skins a knee...	p. 198
"We're here," the husband says...	p. 199
A child's frail voice...	p. 200
The middle-aged teacher...	p. 201
People try to fight time...	p. 202
Insomniacs toss and turn...	p. 203
The woman says: "It looks like rain."...	p. 204
The house sits well back...	p. 205
A middle-aged man's wife tells him...	p. 206
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Dreaming the Miracle

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

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