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Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) played a central part in the avant-garde movement that swept through the French literary and artistic circles during the early 20th century. Much of his early history is unknown, and even the origin of his original name remains clouded by contradictions. Like Gertrude Stein, his work was influenced by the Cubist movement in the arts. The book Alcools, written in 1913, is considered his greatest work, darting from formal poems (like alexandrines and regular stanzas) to those devoid of rhyme, regularity, and punctuation.  Read more »

Edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris(University of California Press)

Guest Reviewer Jack Foley

Jerome Rothenberg is a distinguished poet and translator who has created a number of fascinating, innovative anthologies: Technicians of the Sacred, Shaking the Pumpkin, A Big Jewish Book, Symposium of the Whole, among others. The latest of these, and in some ways the best, is Poems for the Millennium, which Rothenberg produced in collaboration with poet/translator Pierre Joris. Read more »