"In The Hiddenness of the World," French poet Gerard Martin addresses humanity's longing for a rebirth of wonder in a world frighteningly commercial, technological, and environmentally destructive. Martin's almost mystical approach draws attention to minute details of the natural world as secret mirrors of the sacred. Bertrand Mathieu's translation gives Martin the vivaciousness he gave another French poet--Rimbaud

Gerard Martin has published poetry in France as well as numerous critical articles about Rimbaud and others.

Bertrand Mathieu is the translator of the preeminent translation of "Rimbaud, A Season in Hell & Illuminations "(BOA Editions).

"With skill and imagination, Bertrand Mathieu gives us an intimacy of the spoken American that allows readers to absorb themselves in Rimbaud's private drama as in an obsessive dream of our own.... Mathieu has earned our gratitude and praise for his accomplishment: to have given Rimbaud his contemporary relevance for us."--David Ignatow