The Self-Dismembered Man
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The Self-Dismembered Man

Selected Later Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire

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The Self-Dismembered Man

Selected Later Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire

About this book

Guillaume Apollinaire's final years exactly coincided with the clamorous advent of European Modernism and with the cataclysms of WWI. 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. 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. 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. This English translation, facing the original French, illuminates Apollinaire's crucial and continuing influence on the European and American avant-garde. The volume includes a short translator's preface.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Les Collines
  8. The Hills
  9. Les FenĂȘtres
  10. The Windows
  11. Le Musicien de Saint-Merry
  12. The Musician of Saint-Merry
  13. Arbre
  14. Tree
  15. Océan de Terre
  16. Ocean of Earth
  17. Lundi Rue Christine
  18. Monday in the rue Christine
  19. A Travers l’Europe
  20. Across Europe
  21. Un FantÎme de Nuées
  22. Cloud Phantom
  23. Souvenirs
  24. Mementos
  25. La Petite Auto
  26. The Little Car
  27. Le DĂ©part
  28. The Departure
  29. Fusée
  30. Flare
  31. La Nuit d’Avril 1915
  32. 1915 April Night
  33. Merveille de la Guerre
  34. Marvel of War
  35. FĂȘte
  36. Festival
  37. Un Oiseau Chante
  38. A Bird Is Singing
  39. Chant de l’Horizon en Champagne
  40. Song of the Horizon in Champagne
  41. Toujours
  42. Always
  43. Les Soupirs du Servant de Dakar
  44. Sighs of the Dahar Gunner
  45. Ilya
  46. There’s
  47. Ombre
  48. Shadow
  49. La Victoire
  50. Victory
  51. La Jolie Rousse
  52. The Pretty Redhead
  53. Translator’s Afterword
  54. About the Authors