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.

• An Introduction to the Prose Poem
• The House of Your Dream: An International Collection of Prose Poetry (Marie Alexander Poetry Series)
• Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present
• Paris Spleen (New Directions Paperbook)
• Citizen: An American Lyric
• Illuminations
• The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice
• Shelter: A Novel
• My Life and My Life in the Nineties (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
• Models of the Universe : An Anthology of the Prose Poem