The New French Poetry Author:David Kelley French-English bilingual edition. One of the most challenging developments in contemporary French writing, the new metaphysical poetry is a rigorously ontological poetry, concerned with the very being of things, and with the nature of poetic language itself. This is an extremely significant development, not just in poetry but in all French writi... more »ng. Writers of different generations are represented, from Mansour, Dupin and Noël, to Frank Andrée Jamme and André Velter. Major figures, as well as those relatively unknown abroad, are included. Much of the poetry shows an affinity with the work of Henri Michaux.« less