Birds, Beasts and a World Made New: Guillaume Apollinaire and Velimir Khlebnikov (1908-22)

by Velimir Khlebnikov and Guillaume Apollinaire

Robert Chandler (Translator)

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A revelatory volume of two of the twentieth century's great poetic innovators, Guillaume Apollinaire and Velimir Khlebnikov, in vibrant new translations by Robert Chandler

Guillaume Apollinaire and Velimir Khlebnikov never met, but they have much in common. Both inventive luminaries of Modernism, they played a central role in the avant-garde movements of their time and worked closely with the most important visual artists around them. Written with exhilarating freedom and creativity, their verse has continued to inspire poets to the present day.

Acclaimed translator and poet Robert Chandler offers a unique selection from both poets' work in vivid new translations. Showcasing their most direct, heartfelt verse alongside their form-breaking innovations, this volume reveals the deep insight with which these two poets wrote about love, friendship, art, revolution, famine and war.

  • ISBN10 178227992X
  • ISBN13 9781782279921
  • Publish Date 15 August 2024
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Steerforth Press
  • Imprint Pushkin Press Classics