The Poet Assassinated

by Guillaume Apollinaire and Ron. (Translation) Apollinaire, Guillaume. (Text) Dine, Jim. (Illustrations) Padgett

Book Overview

A Rabelaisian mock-epic full of typographic play and careening prose

Apollinaire was Modernism's first champion, and after his early death in 1918, he became its first saint. Lying in a hospital bed in 1915, recovering from combat wounds suffered in World War I, Apollinaire assembled the fragments of a tragicomic, mock-epic and occasionally obscene autobiography- -clef: The Poet Assassinated. This novella recounts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1878972294
• ISBN13: 9781878972293
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Exact Change
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.0"