Earthly Agitated Air and everything in between

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Earthly Agitated Air and everything in betweenJean 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,