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Alcools: Poems (Wesleyan Poetry)

Alcools: Poems (Wesleyan Poetry)

by Guillaume Apollinaire (Author), Donald Revell (Translator), Donald Revell (Translator), Guillaume Apollinaire (Author)

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    Paperback 1995

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Synopsis

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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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 185
 Edition: Trans. from the French ed.
 Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 31 Aug 1995
ISBN 10: 0819512281
ISBN 13: 9780819512284

Media Reviews
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
Author Bio
DONALD REVELL recently became Writer-in Residence and Professor of English at the University of Utah. Winner of a Guggenheim and two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, his most recent Wesleyan book is Beautiful Shirt (1994).