Alcools
Poems
Published on 13. December 2022
185 pages
978-0-8195-7179-3 (ISBN)
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.
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DONALD REVELL recently became Writer-in Residence and Professor of English at the University of Utah. Winner of a Guggenheim and two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, his most recent Wesleyan book is Beautiful Shirt (1994).
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- The Alcools of Guillaume Apollinaire: Why and Why Now
- Translator's Note
- Zone
- Zone
- Le Pont Mimbeau
- Mirabeau Bridge
- La Chanson du Mai Aimé
- The Song of the Poorly Loved
- Les Colchiques
- Saffrons
- Palais
- Palace
- Chantre
- Singer
- Crépuscule
- Twilight
- Annie
- Annie
- La Maison des Marts
- The House of the Dead
- Clotilde
- Clotilde
- Cortège
- Procession
- Marizibill
- Marizibill
- Le Voyageur
- The Traveler
- Marie
- Marie
- La Blanche Neige
- Snow
- Poème lu au mariage d'André Salmon
- Poem Read at the Marriage of André Salmon
- L'Adieu
- The Farewell
- Salome
- Salome
- La Porte
- The Door
- Saltimbanques
- Saltimbanques
- Le Vent nocturne
- The Wind by Night
- Lul de Faltenin
- Lul of Faltenin
- La Tzigane
- The Gypsy
- Automne
- Autumn
- L'Émigrant de Landor Road
- The Emigrant from Landor Road
- Rosemonde
- Rosemonde
- Le Brasier
- The Brazier
- Rhénanes
- Rhénanes
- Signe
- Sign
- Un Soir
- An Evening
- La Dame
- The Lady
- Les Fiançailles
- The Betrothal
- Clair de Lune
- Clair de Lune
- 1909
- 1909
- À la Santé
- At the Santé
- Automne malade
- Sickly Autumn
- Hôtels
- Hotels
- Cors de Chasse
- Hunting Horns
- Vendémiaire
- The Harvest Month
