Poems of Samuel Wood Author:Louis Rene des Forets Poetry. Translated from the French by Anthony Barnett. POEMS OF SAMUEL WOOD is a meditation on the mysteries of life and language and loss of others and the approaching loss of self by Louis-René des Forêts (1918-2000), author of The Children's Room and Ostinato, co-founder of the review L'Éphémère and a painter of the fantastic.