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Bestiary, or, The parade of Orpheus
Guillaume Apollinaire ; woodcuts by Raoul Dufy ; translated by Pepe Karmel.
Published
1980
by
D.R. Godine
in
Boston
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Written in English.
About the Book
An early and influential champion of cubism, the friend of Braque, Picasso, Dufy, Rousseau and Marie Laurencin (who became his mistress), Apollinaire was a seminal figure in the revolutionary art style known as "Surrealism," a term that he coined some seven years before Breton formally founded the movement.
In this charming book, published in 1910 and embellished with the graphically sophisticated and totally appropriate woodcuts of Dufy, we find the poet at his most accessible. His quatrains, printed in Dante italic and felicitously translated by Pepe Karmel, present a voice that ranges from the colloquial to the impassioned, a brisk combination of lyric imagery and bawdy humor (not surprising for a poet who, after a pious adolescence, supported himself by writing pornography). This is a small bijou of a livre de peintre, a lovely and lively ensemble of accessible poetry and striking woodcut art.
Edition Notes
Other Titles |
Bestiary, Parade of Orpheus |
Classifications
Dewey Decimal Class |
841/.912 |
Library of Congress |
PQ2601.P6 B413 2000 |
The Physical Object
Pagination |
x, 65 p. : |
Number of pages |
65 |
Dimensions |
8.1 x 6.4 x 0.3 inches |
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History Created April 1, 2008 · 7 revisions
| August 4, 2010 | Edited by IdentifierBot | added LibraryThing ID |
| May 10, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Linked existing covers to the edition. |
| April 16, 2010 | Edited by bgimpertBot | Added goodreads ID. |
| April 14, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Linked existing covers to the edition. |
| April 1, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | Initial record created, from Scriblio MARC record. |