Charting the here of there

"There is an undeniable, yet indefinable bond joining French and American poetry. It can be seen in the ever increasing numbers of translations published in the two countries, ... and is also evident in the shapes and directions taken by the poetry of both nations, which have occasionally overlapped to the point of producing works that, by their very nature, are truly bi-national creations. ... While the reasons for this mutual fascination may be difficult to identify, examples of it are not hard to come by--one need look no further than the pages of literary magazines, where excerpts from an ongoing Franco-American dialogue in poetry are readily apparent"--Page 9.