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Gustaf Sobin’s Caesurae: Midsummer was published as part of Shearsman #4. His Celebration of the Sound Through should be available shortly from the New York State Small Press Association, who distribute Montemora Books.

Wislawa Szymborska is one of Poland’s leading poets. Her poems display the rare combination of wit, elegance and toughness which has earned her both popular & critical acclaim. She was born in 1923 and published her first poems in 1945, Recently a Selected Poems has been published with an English facing text by Princeton University Press in their Lockert Library series.

Adam Czerniawski has published 4 collections of poetry and numerous philosophical & literary translations. His Selected Poems are due for publication in Kraków, & he is currently preparing a new edition of his translations of Tadeusz Rozéwicz’s poetry. Czerniawski was born in 1934 in Warsaw, Since the war he has been living mainly in England.

Toby Olson has many books of poems & fiction available. The most recent are Aesthetics (Membrane Press - distrib. BS), and The Florence Poems (Permanent Press, London/New York - distrib. IPD) Seaview, a novel is due from New Directions in early 1982. The “Aesthetics” pieces here are part of the same series as those in the Memnbrane volume, but are not in that book.

Keith Abbott works as a tree-trimmer and trash hauler in Albany, Cal. He has 2 books of poems from Cranium Press & Blue Wind Press (Putty & Erase Words) & 2 novels also from Blue Wind (Gush & Rhino Ritz), Selections from the latter title are to appear in an anthology of young American novelists to be published in Italy, and edited by Franco la Polla.

David Giannini lives in Massachusetts and is the co-author of 3 with John Levy & Bob Arnold (Longhouse Press) He also appeared recently in New Directions # 40, the excellent ND house journal.

Philippe Jacottet is one of France’s greatest living poets. He was born in Moudon, Switzerland in 1925. After his studies in literature in Lausanne, he lived for a time in Paris and worked for the publisher, Mermod. After his marriage in 1953 he moved to Grignan, in the Drôme, just north of Provence. His poetry is best approached via the volume Poésie 1946-1967 (Gallimard paperback), or in translation via Cid Corman’s versions in Breathings (Mushinsha/Crossmann NY 1974). Besides poetry, Jacottet has also published notebooks (La Semaison), translations of Hölderlin, Rilke, Ungaretti & Musil, literary criticism (Rilke par lui-même), fiction (L’obscurité), & more indefinable prose works (Eléments d’un songe, La promenade sous les arbres),

Paul Auster has also translated André du Bouchet (The Uninhabited, Living Hand NY 1974), as well as publishing 4 books of his own poetry, a volume of prose, and most recently, a volume of essays (The Art of Hunger). His anthology of French poetry is due next year.

Léon-Paul Fargue (1876-1947), who was greatly influenced by Rimbaud, bridges the gap between Symbolism and Surrealism, Poèmes (written between 1900 and 1912) from which the poems in this issue have been taken, was his first collection of poems in prose. It is particularly important as a landmark in the development of the French prose poem through the manner in which, while still within the Symbolist tradition in its dreamlike musicality, it also foreshadows Surrealism to come in its use of startling imagery and unexpected juxtapositions and metaphors. After 1924 Fargue collaborated briefly with the Surrealists before embarking on a series of volumes of poems in prose - exemplified by D’Après Paris (1931) and Le Piéton de Paris (1939), Méandres (1946) - devoted to the “mythology of Paris”, visions of a modern city in which, within the framework of the real world of Paris, fantastic events take place in an atmosphere of phantasm and nightmare, often related in a language full of Rabelaisian neologisms.

Gaol Turnbull is the author of, among others, A Trampoline & Scantlings (both Cape Goliard) & The Small Change (reviewed in Shearsman #3). He is well known as the founder of the Migrant Press which did much to enliven the poetry scene in England around 1960. He lives in Malvern, Worcestershire, and is a doctor.

Jean Follain (1903 - ) is one of the more interesting figures in post war French poetry, a lone figure (though there are similarites with Reverdy, among others) , whose poetry is very flat, rhythmically, but full of strange twists of syntax, the words rushing in on one another confusingly. Everything is flat, but the words are placed with infinite care, the threads of their composition all but invisible to the reader.

Ian Robinson edits Telegram, the Oasis Press, and was editor of Oasis magazine. His most recent book is Obsequies (Blind Lion Books, dist. IPD).

Michael Bullock’s new book of poems is due shortly from Third Eye Books, London, Ontario. There should be a notice of it in the next issue.

Graham Sykes is the editor of the Poetry & fiction magazine, Kudos, in Leeds.

Paul Green edits the magazine and press Spectacular Diseases from Peterborough.

John Perlman has a new book, Homing, from the Elizabeth Press, distrib. SPD.

David Miller is an Australian living in London. Stingy Artist published his In the Midst in London last year, and a new book is due from Singing Horse Press in Pennsylvania.

Claud Faïn lives in Paris. His most recent booklet, along with Le Rite was Le Démantèlement, also published by Le Collet de Buffle.

Douglas Woolf is the author of HAD, Spring of the Lamb, Fade Out, Ya! and John-Juan. The latter can be had from SPD, the first 2 from BS. They’re all worth getting.

Philip Crick’s chapbook Episodes was part of Shearsman 4.

Martin Anderson’s chapbook The Kneeling Room was a part of #4 also.