Share
the self-dismembered man,selected later poems of guilluame apollinaire (in English)
Guillaume Apollinaire
(Author)
·
Donald Revell
(Translated by)
·
Wesleyan University Press
· Paperback
the self-dismembered man,selected later poems of guilluame apollinaire (in English) - Apollinaire, Guillaume ; Revell, Donald
$ 12.57
$ 17.95
You save: $ 5.39
Choose the list to add your product or create one New List
✓ Product added successfully to the Wishlist.
Go to My WishlistsIt will be shipped from our warehouse between
Friday, May 31 and
Monday, June 03.
You will receive it anywhere in United States between 1 and 3 business days after shipment.
Synopsis "the self-dismembered man,selected later poems of guilluame apollinaire (in English)"
First substantial translation of Apollinaire's later works by an award-winning poet.Guillaume Apollinaire's final years exactly coincided with the clamorous advent of European Modernism and with the cataclysms of WWI. In The Self-Dismembered Man, poet Donald Revell offers new English translations of the most powerful poems Apollinaire wrote during those years: poems of nascent surrealism, of combat and of war-weariness. Here, too, is Apollinaire's last testament, "The Pretty Redhead," a farewell to the epoch that he--as poet, convict, art-critic, artilleryman and boulevardier--did so much to conjure and sustain until his death on Armistice Day in 1918. Readers of Apollinaire's more familiar early work, Alcools (Wesleyan, 1995), will find here a darker and yet more tender poet, a poet of the broken world who shares entirely the world's catastrophe even as he praises to the end its glamour and its strange innocence. This English translation, facing the original French, illuminates Apollinaire's crucial and continuing influence on the European and American avant-garde. The volume includes a short translator's preface.
