Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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APOLLINAIRE, by Francis Steegmuller. An excellent biography separating fact from the multiplying legends about the flamboyant French poet who was an early experimental voice in modern French poetry and the cultural midwife of the cubist movement in painting...
Married. Helga Sandburg, 45, novelist and children's author (Joel and the Wild Geese), youngest daughter of the famed poet; and Dr. George Crile Jr., 56, Cleveland surgeon and cancer specialist; she for the third, he for the second time; in a highly informal ceremony conducted by her 85-year-old father over the dining room table at his Flat Rock, N.C., home, followed by a civil marriage in Washington. Carl's wedding presents: one donkey, named Picco, three goats, named Rama, Rowan, and Fleur...
Being a living legend in one's own lifetime is hard on the liver-especially in Paris. But it is even harder on the serious biographer who, several generations later, tries to separate subject and myth. Poet-Critic Guillaume Apollinaire, who died on the eve of the 1918 armistice, is an almost classic case in point. For the avantgarde, he loomed as a giant figure, an irrepressible rebel against stuffy conventions, a decisive experimental voice in modern French poetry, and the cultural midwife of the cubist movement in painting. For most of the rest of the world...
Wilde Postcard. It is often hard to disagree with the judgment. Born in Rome in 1880 and grandiosely christened Guglielmo Alberto Wladimoro Alessandro Apollinaire Kostrowitzky, the future poet was in fact the bastard son of a beautiful Polish courtesan and an unknown man, possibly of noble blood. "Your father a sphinx," Apollinaire once bitterly gibed at himself, "your mother a one-night stand." At 19, he was helping his mother swindle a hotelkeeper in Belgium out of three months' food and lodging. At 20, when a young English governess refused to accept his hand in marriage, he threatened...
Monster or Hero? Apollinaire, Steegmuller insists, was a remarkable poet despite, rather than because of, the poetic gimcracks he often employed. Uniquely among his contemporaries, he understood that poetry would increasingly need a precise language to keep pace with the modern world, a stock of images to keep pace with science, which was leaving all old-fashioned conceptions dangerously behind...