Caligramas guillaume apollinaire biography
Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War , is a collection of poems by Guillaume Apollinaire which was first published in...
Guillaume Apollinaire is one of the most widely read and influential of modern French poets.
Calligrammes
Poetry collection by Guillaume Apollinaire
For the type of artwork, see Calligram.
Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War 1913-1916, is a collection of poems by Guillaume Apollinaire which was first published in 1918.
Calligrammes is noted for how the typeface and spatial arrangement of the words on a page plays just as much of a role in the meaning of each poem as the words themselves – a form called a calligram. In this sense, the collection can be seen as either concrete poetry or visual poetry.
Apollinaire described his work as follows:
The Calligrammes are an idealisation of free verse poetry and typographical precision in an era when typography is reaching a brilliant end to its career, at the dawn of the new means of reproduction that are the cinema and the phonograph.
(Guillaume Apollinaire, in a letter to André Billy)[2]
