Bestiary

by Apollinaire, Guillaume; Dufy, Raoul; Karmel, Pepe; Dufy, Raoul; Karmel, Pepe

• ISBN13: 9781567921427
• ISBN10: 1567921426
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: David R Godine Pub

Summary

An early and influential champion of cubism, the friend of Braque, Picasso, Dufy, Rousseau and Marie Laurencin (who became his mistress), Apollinaire was a seminal figure in the revolutionary art style known as "Surrealism," a term that he coined some seven years before Breton formally founded the movement. In this charming book, published in 1910 and embellished with the graphically sophisticated and totally appropriate woodcuts of Dufy, we find the poet at his most accessible. His quatrains, printed in Dante italic and felicitously translated by Pepe Karmel, present a voice that ranges from the colloquial to the impassioned, a brisk combination of lyric imagery and bawdy humor (not surprising for a poet who, after a pious adolescence, supported himself by writing pornography). This is a small bijou of a livre de peintre, a lovely and lively ensemble of accessible poetry and striking woodcut art.

Table of Contents

Translator's Note	vii
Biographical Note	ix
Orpheus	2	(2)
The Tortoise	4	(2)
The Horse	6	(2)
The Tibetan Goat	8	(2)
The Serpent	10	(2)
The Cat	12	(2)
The Lion	14	(2)
The Hare	16	(2)
The Rabbit	18	(2)
The Dromedary	20	(2)
The Mouse	22	(2)
The Elephant	24	(2)
Orpheus	26	(2)
The Caterpillar	28	(2)
The Fly	30	(2)
The Flea	32	(2)
The Grasshopper	34	(2)
Orpheus	36	(2)
The Dolphin	38	(2)
The Octopus	40	(2)
The Jellyfish	42	(2)
The Crayfish	44	(2)
The Carp	46	(2)
Orpheus	48	(2)
The Sirens	50	(2)
The Dove	52	(2)
The Peacock	54	(2)
The Owl	56	(2)
Ibis	58	(2)
The Ox	60	(3)
Notes	63