Apollinaire, Guillaume

The Poet Assassinated

Exact Change
Cambridge: 2000
Trade paperback,
157 pp
Cover artwork by: Naomi Yang

Apollinaire has been called modernism’s first champion. Goofy guy for sure. “In 1916, while recovering from a head wound received in World War I, he published THE POET ASSASSINATED, his most famous work of prose; a roman à clef mythologizing himself as well as friends and enemies including Pablo Picasso, Marie Laurencin, Jean Cocteau, Max Jacob, and others from the legendary ‘banquet years’ of prewar Paris.”   #9999