Product Description: Contemporary French poetry has long been tagged as being overly cerebral and hermetic. But there exists a very different, thriving tradition which is too often muffled by noisier movements like Surrealism or Minimalism. Into the Deep Street gives voice to this tradition...read more

Product Description: Eugene Guillevic, who died in 1997, was one of France's most important contemporary poets. Dating from 1961, Carnac marks the beginning of Guillevic's mature life as a poet. A single poem divided into several parts, it evokes the rocky, sea-bound, unfinished landscape of Brittany with its sacred objects and its great silent sense of waiting...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Stephen Romer is unlike any other contemporary poet: the 'Tribute' paid in his long-awaited third collection is divided between homage and exaction. The homage is voluntary and finds several recipients, the exaction only one. Much turns on the question of idealization, experienced as emotional necessity in the face of love, that 'terrible crystallization'...read more

Product Description: Idols established Stephen Romer as a poet of tempering wit, philosophical eloquence, and emotional candour. This long-awaited second volume develops many of the same themes, but the scope is considerably broadened.

Product Description: The idols of Romer's first collection of poetry refer to those compelling human images that insinuate themselves into every level of consciousness. With his unusually expressive tonal range and rhythms, Romer describes our various attempts to celebrate and exorcise these contemporary gods...read more