The Little Auto - Couverture souple

Apollinaire, Guillaume

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0956735940 ISBN 13 : 9780956735942

Editeur : CB Editions, 2012

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Winner of the 2014 Scott Moncrieff Prize for translation

Just as they were posting the mobilization orders
We understood my comrade and I
That the little auto had driven us into a New Era
And although we were both already grown men
We had just been born

In late 1914 Apollinaire swapped the high life of avant-garde Paris for the mud and desolation of war in the trenches. But his poems of this period are wholly different from those that for English readers have come to define the genre of war poetry: exploding shells are compared to champagne bottles, and juxtaposed with the orgy of destruction are nostalgia for antiquity, impatience for the future, melancholy and exuberance.,p. Apollinaire died in 1918. The new translations in this bilingual edition comprise mostly poems written after 1914, but include Zone (in the first English version since Samuel Beckett s to match the original s use of rhyme) and some other pre-war poems. A century later, they remain as daring and alive as when they were written.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Guillaume Apollinaire, born in Rome in 1880, travelled widely in Europe before settling in Paris in 1899 and becoming a champion of Picasso, Braque, Duchamp and many other artists. He enlisted in the French army in 1914; he suffered a shrapnel head wound in 1916, and died in Paris two years later.

Beverley Bie Brahic is a poet and translator (Cixous, Derrida, Roubaud). A Canadian, she lives in Paris and Stanford, California. Her translation of selected poems by Francis Ponge, Unfinished Ode to Mud (CBe, 2008) was a finalist for the 2009 Popescu Prize for European poetry in translation; her second book of poetry, White Sheets, shortlisted for the 2012 Forward Prize, is also available from CBe.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: CB Editions
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0956735940
• ISBN 13: 9780956735942
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 148