Zone by Guillaume Apollinaire

Zone by Guillaume Apollinaire

Zone is the fruit of poet-translator Ron Padgett's fifty-year engagement with the work of France's greatest modern poet. This bilingual edition of Apollinaire's poetry represents the full range of his achievement from traditional lyric verse to the pathbreaking visual poems he called calligrams, from often-anthologized classics to hitherto-untranslated gems, from poems of cosmic breadth to a poem about his shoes. Including an introduction by the distinguished scholar Peter Read, helpful endnotes, a preface, and an annotated bibliography by Padgett, this new edition of Apollinaire stands out not only for its compact and judicious selection of the essential poems but also as the work of an important American poet. The Washington Post has said, "No praise can be too high for Ron Padgett's translations."

This bilingual edition includes the original French versions of each poem.

The moving spirit of French modernism, Apollinaire was born in Rome in 1880. He became a French citizen only in 1916, after service in the artillery and infantry. He died during the Paris flu epidemic of 1918. Born in 1925, Oliver Bernard has translated the poems of Arthur Rimbaud as well as Apollinaire. His own poems, titled Verse &c., were published by Anvil in 2001.

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ISBN 13	9781590179246
ISBN 10	1590179242
Title	Zone
Author	Guillaume Apollinaire
Series	Nyrb Poets Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The New York Review of Books, Inc
Year published	2015-11-24
Number of pages	272
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