| Alcools: Poems Trans. from the Edition Contributor(s): Apollinaire, Guillaume (Author), Revell, Donald (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0819512281 ISBN-13: 9780819512284 Publisher: Wesleyan University Press OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1995 Annotation: A collection of poems written by Guillamume Apollinaire translated by Donald Revell, contemporary poet. Alcools has aged well, retaining its ability to illuminate the modern experience with rare force and whimsy. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - General |
| Dewey: 841.912 |
| LCCN: 95002294 |
| Series: Wesleyan Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 6.05" W x 9.15" (0.65 lbs) 185 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A new translation of this complex and beautiful poetry. Alcools, first published in 1913 and one of the few indispensable books of twentieth- century poetry, provides a key to the century's history and consciousness. Champion of "cubism", Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) fashions in verse the sonic equivalent of what Picasso accomplishes in his cubist works: simultaneity. Apollinaire has been so influential that without him there would have been no New York School of poetry and no Beat Movement. This new translation reveals his complex, beautiful, and wholly contemporary poetry. Printed with the original French on facing pages, this is the only version of this seminal work of French Modernism currently available in the United States. |