About the Author

Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) worked as a bank employee in Paris, founded the review journal Le festin d'esope, and served as art critic for Le petit bleu. He served in the French army infantry beginning in 1914, until he was wounded in 1916. He passed away in 1918. Roger Shattuck, author of Forbidden Knowledge and Proust's Way, has won the National Book Award. He lives in Vermont.

Reviews

"The leader of the Parisian avant-garde, the champion of cubism, simultaneism, futurism and every other -ism, the poet who embraced the new technologies and exploded poetic form and figure..." -- Stephen Romer - The Guardian "The young and very ferocious are going to 'understand' Guillaume Apollinaire." -- Ezra Pound