AFTER FREE VERSE: THE NEW NON-LINEAR POETRIES by MARJORIE PERLOFF What is generally called free verse is now more than a century old. It was in 1886 that Gustave Kahn's Paris La Vogue published Rimbaud's Marine and Mouvement (both written in the early 1870s), translations of some of Whitman's Leaves of Grass by Jules Laforgue, ten of Laforgue's own free-verse poems, and further experiments ...