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Author: Guillaume Apollinaire
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Guillaume Apollinaires final years exactly coincided with the clamorous advent of European Modernism and with the cataclysms of WWI. In The Self-Dismembered Man, poet Donald Revell offers new English translations of the most powerful poems Apollinaire wrote during those years poems of nascent surrealism, of combat and of war-weariness. Here, too, is Apollinaires last testament, The Pretty Redhead, a farewell to the epoch that heas poet, convict, art-critic, artilleryman and boulevardierdid so much to conjure and sustain until his death on Armistice Day in 1918. Readers of Apollinaires more familiar early work, Alcools (Wesleyan, 1995), will find here a darker and yet more tender poet, a poet of the broken world who shares entirely the worlds catastrophe even as he praises to the end its glamour and its strange innocence. This English translation, facing the original French, illuminates Apollinaires crucial and continuing influence on the European and American avant-garde. The volume includes a short translators preface.ReviewHere is a work that is devoted, fresh, tender and full of care, both in its selection and in the translation. It succinctly sketches a bridge between Apollinaire, poet of the early 20th century and poetry at present. -- Norma Cole, author of Cross-Cut Universe Writing on Writing From France ReviewHere is a work that is devoted, fresh, tender and full of care, both in its selection and in the translation. It succinctly sketches a bridge between Apollinaire, poet of the early 20th century and poetry at present. (Norma Cole, author of Cross-Cut Universe Writing on Writing From France)|This is an outstanding translation. Revell renders the French in just the right idiomatic language. (Marjorie Perloff, author of Wittgensteins Ladder) Guillaume Apollinaires final years exactly coincided with the clamorous advent of European Modernism and with the cataclysms of WWI. In The Self-Dismembered Man, poet Donald Revell offers new English translations of the most powerful poems Apollinaire wrote during those years poems of nascent surrealism, of combat and of war-weariness. Here, too, is Apollinaires last testament, The Pretty Redhead, a farewell to the epoch that heas poet, convict, art-critic, artilleryman and boulevardierdid so much to conjure and sustain until his death on Armistice Day in 1918. Readers of Apollinaires more familiar early work, Alcools (Wesleyan, 1995), will find here a darker and yet more tender poet, a poet of the broken world who shares entirely the worlds catastrophe even as he praises to the end its glamour and its strange innocence. This English translation, facing the original French, illuminates Apollinaires crucial and continuing influence on the European and American avant-garde. The volume includes a short translators preface.
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Author: Henriette Mantel
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In No Kidding, comedy writer Henriette Mantel tackles the topic of actually not having kids. This fascinating collection features a star-studded group of contributorsincluding Margaret Cho, Wendy Liebman, Laurie Graff, and other accomplished, funny womenwriting about why they opted out of motherhood. Whether their reasons have to do with courage, apathy, monetary considerations, health issues, or something else entirely, the essays featured in the pages of No Kidding honestly (and humorously) delve into the minds of women who have chosen what they would call a more sane path. Hilarious, compelling, and inspiring, No Kidding reveals a perspective that has too long been hidden, shamed, and silencedand celebrates an entire population of women who have decided that kids are just not right for them. Additional contributors include Janette Barber, Cheryl Bricker, Valri Bromfield, Cindy Caponera, Bonnie Datt, Jeanne Dorsey, Nora Dunn, Jane Gennaro, Julie Halston, Debbie Kasper, Sue Kolinsky, Maureen Langan, Beth Lapides, Bernadette Luckett, Merrill Markoe, Andrea Carla Michaels, Vanda Mikoloski, Judy Morgan, Judy Nielsen, Susan Norfleet, Suzanne ONeil, Jennifer Prediger, Kathryn Rossetter, Betsy Salkind, Patricia Scanlon, Jeanette Schwaba Vigne, Nancy Shayne, Carol Siskind, Ann Slichter, Tracy Smith, Suzy Soro, Amy Stiller, and Nancy Van Iderstine.**
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