First substantial translation of Apollinaire\'s later works by an award-winning poet.
His most recent Wesleyan book is Arcady (2002), which won the 2003 PEN Center USA Poetry Award..
DONALD REVELL is a poet and translator.
His books include Calligrammes (1918) and Alcools (1913).
About author(s): GUILLAUME Apollinaire (1880-1918) was a central figure in the Modernist movement in Europe where, with Matisse, he gave Cubism its name.
The volume includes a short translator\'s preface.
This English translation, facing the original French, illuminates Apollinaire\'s crucial and continuing influence on the European and American avant-garde.
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.
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.
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.
Guillaume Apollinaire \'s final years exactly coincided with the clamorous advent of European Modernism and with the cataclysms of WWI.
First substantial translation of Apollinaire\'s later works by an award-winning poet
