The Cubist Painters Guillaume Apollinaire

Translated, with commentary, by Peter Read.

The first English translation of Apollinaire’s 1913 Les Peintres cubistes [Méditations Esthétiques], by a Mrs. Charles Knoblauch, was published in 1922 in three issues of […]

Alcools. Poems By Guillaume Apollinaire. Translated by Donald Revell.

Translated by Donald Revell

Wesleyan University Press, 1995.  $30.00 (c), $15.95 (p).

published in The Boston Review 21, no. 1 (FEB/MARCH 1996): 33-34.

At last:  a first-rate, lively, and imaginative translation of Apollinaire’s Alcools (1913) to set side by side with Ron Padgett’s Complete Poems of Blaise Cendrars (California, 1992).  I say at last because both these great French avant-garde poets have […]