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Original Title:	Alcools
ISBN:	0819512281 (ISBN13: 9780819512284)
Edition Language:	English

Alcools

Guillaume Apollinaire

Paperback | Pages: 185 pages

Rating: 4.04 | 5204 Users | 103 Reviews

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Title	:	Alcools
Author	:	Guillaume Apollinaire
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 185 pages
Published	:	August 25th 1995 by Wesleyan University Press (first published 1913)
Categories	:	Poetry. Cultural. France. Classics. European Literature. French Literature. Literature. 20th Century. Fiction

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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.

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Ratings: 4.04 From 5204 Users | 103 Reviews

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i enjoyed bits of this. it saddened me to see so much rhyme in the original French that accompanies the more liberal English translations. i was inspired to read Apollinaire after seeing the first few lines of "Zone" referenced in an introduction to Stephen Mitchell's translations of Rilke:"At last you're tired of this elderly worldSheperdess O Eiffel Tower this morning the bridges are bleatingYou're fed up with living in antiquity"i liked a lot of the images, but i got lost in the denser poems

very good. Zone, Mirabeau Bridge, The Song of the Poorly Loved, Procession, and The Harvest Month stood out to me the most but I liked all of them

A difficullt book to read.

Apollinaire is a fascinating poet because he synthesized or presaged several early 20th-century movements (cubism, futurism, surrealism, modernism) with his own unique vision. A few of these poems are like knotty puzzles that can only be decoded via footnotes, but overall this collection is solid, and the best poems (Zone, Song of the Poorly Loved, Rhenanes, The Bethrothal, The House of the Dead, Vendemiaire) are sublime. This edition's translator (Anne Hyde Greet) offers copious, helpful notes

Possibly the best book of poetry I've ever read. Does this say more about the book or how sadly few books of poetry I've read, I'll leave up to you. After you read this, of course. Which you should. I reap upon it all the hyperbolic praise your imagination can muster.



Apollinaire's poetry is a little weird for me.