Alcools: Poems

by Guillaume Apollinaire

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819512281
• ISBN13: 9780819512284
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Alcools by Guillaume Apollinaire of

Excellent collection of some of Apollinaire's best poetry from early in the 20th century=in French