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ISBN-10: 0819512281
ISBN-13: 9780819512284
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publish Date: 08/25/1995
Dimensions: 9.15" L, 6.05" W, 0.59" H

Alcools: Poems (Trans. from the French)

Translator: Donald Revell

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Price: $18.95

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 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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"French poetry does not come over very well in English, in what Henry James called 'our own less pensive tongue.' And this I feel is the signal excellence of what Revell does with Alcools as a whole: he translates into a lighter, quicker, more spontaneous tone than we are accustomed to. He parallels the dizzing velocity of Apollinaire's French while remaining legible in English. It is an unfussy version-personal yet not eccentric-that will give readers the chance to taste the source."–Mark Rudman
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ISBN-10: 0819512281
ISBN-13: 9780819512284
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publish Date: 08/25/1995
Dimensions: 9.15" L, 6.05" W, 0.59" H
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