cover image The Self-Dismembered Man: Selected Later Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire

The Self-Dismembered Man: Selected Later Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire

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: The Selected Later Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire, his ""favorite pieces"" from Apollinaire's (1880-1918) posthumous Calligrammes in French and with his English translations. As ""Cloud Phantom"" says of an acrobat, ""His skinny body became such delicate music none of us could bear it.""