The Poet Assassinated

Guillaume Apollinaire

Original title: Poète assassiné

first published 1923 Carcanet Press, 1985 139 pages

Grafton classic

"The poet Apollinaire was modernism's first champion, and after his early death in 1918, he became its first saint." "In 1916, while recovering from a head wound received in World War I, he published The Poet Assassinated, his most famous work of prose; a roman a clef mythologizing himself as well as friends and enemies including Pablo Picasso, Marie Laurencin, Jean Cocteau, Max Jacob, and others from the legendary "...

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Ron Padgett 1 printing we hold · 1994 · Exact Change

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Editions we hold

The poet assassinated edition · 2000 · Exact Change · 158 pages
The Poet Assassinated paperback · 1994 · Exact Change · 192 pages · 9781878972163
The poet assassinated edition · 1988 · Grafton · 139 pages
The poet assassinated edition · 1985 · Carcanet Press · 139 pages
The Poet Assassinated hardcover · 1985 · Carcanet Press Ltd · 144 pages · 9780856355486
The poet assassinated edition · 1968 · Hart-Davis · 128 pages

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