on>THE SELF-DISMEMBERED MAN
WESLEYAN POETRY SERIES
Selected Later Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire
THE SELF-DISMEMBERED MAN
translated by Donald Revell
Published by Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT 06459
English translation and afterword © 2004 by Donald Revell
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Apollinaire, Guillaume, 1880-1918.
[Poems. English & French. Selections]
The self-dismembered man : selected later poems of Guillame Apollinaire / translated by Donald Revell.
p. cm.—(Wesleyan poetry)
English and French on opposite pages.
ISBN 0-8195–6690–X (cloth : alk. paper)—ISBN 0–8195–6691–8
(pbk.: alk. paper)
I. Title. II. Series.
PQ2601.P6A27 2004
841’.912—dc22 2003026214
The translator wishes to thank the University of Utah for a Faculty
Research Fellowship, which was of great help in the making of
these versions.
I also wish to thank the editors of the following journals, which
first published some of these versions:
American Poetry Review
Denver Quarterly
Electronic Poetry Review
Volt
These translations are dedicated to Martin Corless-Smith and to Catherine Wagner
CONTENTS
Le Musicien de Saint-Merry / The Musician of Saint-Merry
Océan de Terre / Ocean of Earth
Lundi Rue Christine / Monday in the rue Christine
A Travers l’Europe / Across Europe
Un Fantôme de Nuées / Cloud Phantom
La Petite Auto / The Little Car
La Nuit d’Avril 1915 / 1915 April Night
Merveille de la Guerre / Marvel of War
Un Oiseau Chante / A Bird Is Singing
Chant del’Horizon en Champagne / Song of the Horizon in Champagne
Les Soupirs du Servant de Dakar / Sighs of the Dakar Gunner
La Jolie Rousse / The Pretty Redhead
THE SELF-DISMEMBERED MAN
