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| | UPNE | The Self-Dismembered Man |
 | | 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. |
 | | GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE (1880-1918) was a central figure in the Modernist movement in Europe where, with Matisse, he gave Cubism its name. |
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