Name: Alcools
ISBN: 9780520000292

Guillaume Apollinaire

Guiilaume Apollinaire, a leading figure amongst the young writers and artists in France until his death in 1918, published 'Alcools', his first book of poems, in 1913. With its wide range of verse forms and contrasting registers of style, 'Alcools' had a considerable influence on Surrealist poetry. The poems provide a splendid example of the lyrical art in which the paradoxes of Apollinaire are held in high poetic tension. The editor's introduction and notes take place in the 20th Century and explain allusion and difficulties in the text.

Alcools

Hannah Faure 

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.

Poems

Sarah

laurene rabeson

Alcools est le recueil qui bascule de la tradition à la modernité. Sans ponctuation, variant longueurs des vers et formes des poèmes, cet art poétique nouveau publié en 1913 est le fruit d’une longue maturation. C’est la Prose du Transsibérien de Cendrars qui eut valeur de déclic et le libéra des contraintes formelles héritées du siècle précédent. C’est également un des recueils les plus lus et étudiés en classe, et à quelques mois du passage dans le DP, il est nécessaire de prendre sa place dans la prescription.

Alice Uzzan

Adelina Maria Stana

Capucine Fachot

Andrea Ordoñez 

ghost girl in satin

Morgane

Ce recueil polyphonique, placé sous le signe du cubisme, révèle l'originalité d'une écriture affranchie des règles de la versification classique et entraîne le lecteur dans des voyages à travers le temps et l'espace. La célébration lyrique de l'ivresse poétique, de l'ivresse de la vie, transfigure le quotidien : "Et tu bois cet alcool brûlant comme ta vie/Ta vie que tu bois comme une eau-de-vie" ("Zone").

Alcools

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