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Apollinaire: Poetry
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"Picasso and Apollinaire were the founding fathers of the modern movement: virtually every innovation in modern art and literature can be traced to them. Using his unrivaled knowledge of French poetry, literature, and art criticism, Peter Read explores the friendship that bound these two giants together. His brilliant and revelatory book is written with a lightness of touch that belies more than twenty years of painstaking research."–Patrick Elliott, author of Picasso on Paper
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The weakened Apollinaire died of influenza during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918. He was interred in the Le Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris. Shortly after his death, Calligrammes, a collection of his concrete poetry (poetry in which typography and layout adds to the overall effect) was published.
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During his Rhineland year, Apollinaire fell for one of the Milhau staff, an English governess called Annie Pleyden, and pursued her by various means including poetry. The non-affair yielded some of the finest of the love poetry that forms such an important and en
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Jean-Louis Trintignant's dream to voice Apollinaire's words in the Courtyard of Honour in the Pope's Palace converged with the Avignon Festival's wish to make poetry and poets a special feature this year. And what a poet ! Apollinaire who speaks in such gentle melancholy of desire, of war, of death and of life. Accompanied by two musicians, Daniel Mille on the accordeon and Grégoire Kornulik on the cello, Jean-Louis Trintignant's unforgettable voice incarnates that language. Under the stars, sitting at a small table, he reads extracts from
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