Guillaume Apollinaire, born Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki on August 26, 1880, in Rome, Italy, and deceased on November 9, 1918, in Paris, France, was a notable French poet ...

Guillaume Apollinaire. Wesleyan University Press, $30 (152pp) ISBN 978-0-8195-6690-4. Fresh from the publication of My Mojave (Alice James), Donald Revell checks in with The Self-Dismembered Man ...

Portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire with his head bandaged. May 1916. Coloured photograph. Photo: adoc-photos / Corbis via Getty Images. Apollinaire’s other famous works include the 1918 collection of ...

Guillaume Apollinaire, trans. from the French by Ron Padgett. New York Review Books, $16 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-59017-925-3 Padgett (Alone and Not Alone) breathes new life into Apollinaire ...

Surrealism is celebrating its 100th birthday this year. The poet Guillaume Apollinaire coined the term to describe his play “Les Mamelles de Tiresias” (The Teats of Tiresias), which opened in ...

The poet Guillaume Apollinaire first saw Robert Delaunay’s canvases in 1912 and likened them to the ancient Greek hero Orpheus, who was known for his poetry and music, which was so beautiful it ...