The most comprehensive bilingual anthology of Jean-Pierre Rosnay's poems in English brings together selections from all four of his major collections and a handful of previously unpublished poems. They include the far reaches of Rosnay's technique and imagination, from the lapidary delicacy and romantic sensibility of "Refrain" to the prose-composition and social awareness of the "Political Poem," profoundly rooted in French multiculturalism. Rosnay (1926-2009) was a prolific poet (with more than 15 published books) and resistance fighter who joined the Parisian intellectual community after WWII, becoming associated with Boris Vian, Isodore Isou, Raymond Queneau, Jean Cocteau, and many others. He became a central figure of the literary and artistic generation of the 1950s. He founded the famed and still existing Club des Poètes. His mission in life was "to make poetry contagious and inevitable."