Earthly, the Selected Poems of Jean Follain, translated by Andrew Seguin

*Pubdate is June 17th, 2025!*

*Presale begins in May, 2025*

Jean Follain (1903–1971) was born in Canisy, a small town in Normandy, studied law at the Faculté de Caen, and later became a magistrate. His first book of poems, La Main chaude, was published in 1933, and his first book of prose, Paris, in 1935. Follain published 11 subsequent volumes of poetry as well as several memoirs of his childhood. In 1970 Follain was awarded the highest honor by L’Académie Française, its Grand Prix du Poésie. He died in 1971 after being struck by a car in Paris.

Andrew Seguin is the author of The Room in Which I Work and the chapbooks NN and Black Anecdote, and co-translator, with Pierre Mabille, of the first French edition of Josef Albers’s Poems and Drawings. Andrew is a former Fulbright scholar and lives in New York City.