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Among the foremost poets of the early 20th century, he is credited with coining the word surrealism and writing one of the earliest works described as surrealist, the play Les Mamelles de Tirésias (1917, later used as the basis for an opera in 1947).]]> male Rome 1880/08/26 1918/11/09 275505 0819512281 9780819512284 10 <![CDATA[Alcools: Poems]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173335978m/275505.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173335978s/275505.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/275505.Alcools_Poems 4.25 114 66522 4.08 598 62 1920 275506 0811200035 9780811200035 9 <![CDATA[Selected Writings of Guillaume Apollinaire (New Directions Book)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173335979m/275506.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173335979s/275506.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/275506.Selected_Writings_of_Guillaume_Apollinaire 4.23 88 ]]> 66522 4.08 598 62 1564244 4.23 88 9 1971 275510 0520242122 9780520242128 3 <![CDATA[Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War (1913-1916)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173335980m/275510.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173335980s/275510.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/275510.Calligrammes_Poems_of_Peace_and_War 4.54 52 Calligrammes is a key work not only in Apollinaire's own development but in the evolution of modern French poetry. Apollinaire--Roman by birth, Polish by name (Wilhelm-Apollinaris de Kostrowitski), Parisian by choice--died at thirty-eight in 1918. Nevertheless, he became one of the leading figures in twentieth-century poetry, a transitional figure whose work at once echoes the Symbolists and anticipates the work of the Surrealists.]]> 66522 4.08 598 62 1973 1352562 2070300072 9782070300075 4 <![CDATA[Alcools / Le Bestiaire / Vitam Impendere Amori (Poesie Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182933998m/1352562.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182933998s/1352562.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1352562.Alcools_Le_Bestiaire_Vitam_Impendere_Amori 4.17 35 Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine
Et nos amours
Faut-il qu'il m'en souvienne
La joie venait toujours après la peine Ces vers du "Pont Mirabeau", comme ceux de "La Chanson du mal-aimé" ou de "Zone", tous issus du recueil Alcools ont fait la fortune littéraire d'Apollinaire, et un grand classique de la poésie. Toutefois, ce classicisme ne doit pas faire oublier qu'en son temps ce recueil constitua une véritable révolution poétique : après Rimbaud, Apollinaire transforme toutes les règles d'un lyrisme devenu vieillot à son goût. Il faut pouvoir chanter le monde, jusque dans sa réalité la plus crue, mais aussi jusque dans ses progrès les plus récents : la tour Eiffel ("Zone") côtoiera donc les cellules de la prison de la Santé ("À la Santé"). Sur ce modèle se succéderont alors la mort, la fuite du temps et surtout l'amour : tantôt lumineux, tantôt obscur, mais toujours au centre de ces ivresses poétiques.

Avec Alcools, Apollinaire deviendra le modèle de tous les poètes à venir, et en particulier des surréalistes. --Karla Manuele

]]> 66522 4.08 598 62 1971 752627 1878972294 9781878972293 3 <![CDATA[The Poet Assassinated]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178045848m/752627.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178045848s/752627.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/752627.The_Poet_Assassinated 3.91 32 66522 4.08 598 62 325433 3.91 32 3 1968 404759 1567921426 9781567921427 5 <![CDATA[Bestiary: Or the Parade of Orpheus]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174464054m/404759.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174464054s/404759.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/404759.Bestiary_Or_the_Parade_of_Orpheus 4.28 29
In this charming book, published in 1910 and embellished with the graphically sophisticated and totally appropriate woodcuts of Dufy, we find the poet at his most accessible. His quatrains, printed in Dante italic and felicitously translated by Pepe Karmel, present a voice that ranges from the colloquial to the impassioned, a brisk combination of lyric imagery and bawdy humor (not surprising for a poet who, after a pious adolescence, supported himself by writing pornography). This is a small bijou of a livre de peintre, a lovely and lively ensemble of accessible poetry and striking woodcut art.]]> 66522 4.08 598 62 1977 275512 0819566918 9780819566911 1 <![CDATA[The Self-Dismembered Man: Selected Later Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173335981m/275512.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173335981s/275512.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/275512.The_Self_Dismembered_Man_Selected_Later_Poems_of_Guillaume_Apollinaire 4.41 22 66522 4.08 598 62 2004 427774 0720611008 9780720611007 1 <![CDATA[Les Onze Milles Verges]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174666247m/427774.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174666247s/427774.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/427774.Les_Onze_Milles_Verges 3.46 26 66522 4.08 598 62 1907 427773 1840680156 9781840680157 2 <![CDATA[Flesh Unlimited]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174666246m/427773.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174666246s/427773.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/427773.Flesh_Unlimited 4.14 14 Dadaist poet Guillaume Apollinaire fine-tuned his uniquely poetic and surreal vision to produce these two materpieces of the explicit erotic imagination at the turn of the century, works which compare with the best of the Marquis de Sade. In Les Onze Milles Verges, debauched aristocrat Mony Vibescu and a circle of fellow sybarites blaze a trail of uncontrollable lust, bloody cruelty and depravity across the streets of Europe. Whilst in Les Mémoires d'un Jeune Don Juan, a young man reminisces his sexual awakening at the hands of his aunt, his sister and their friends as he is utterly corrupted in a season of carnal excess.

Louis Aragon's Le Con d'Irène is the intense story of a man's torment when he becomes fixated upon the genitalia of an imaginary woman and is reduced to voyeuristically scoping her erotic encounters in-between describing various events in brothels and other sexual adventures.

Translated from the original, complete and unexpurgated versions by Alexis Lykiard (translator of Lautréamonts Maldoror), Flesh Unlimited has a general introduction and notes section.

]]> 66522 4.08 598 62 29677 3.88 271 23 1995 436367 1878972030 9781878972033 1 <![CDATA[The Heresiarch & Co.]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174761488m/436367.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174761488s/436367.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/436367.The_Heresiarch_Co_ 3.56 16 66522 4.08 598 62 1988