Blaise Cendrars was a pioneer of modernist literature. The full
range of his poetry--from classical rhymed alexandrines to "cubist"
modernism, and from feverish, even visionary, depression to airy
good humor--offers a challenge no translator has accepted until
now. Here, for the first time in English translation, is the
complete poetry of a legendary twentieth-century French writer.
Cendrars, born Frederick Louis Sauser in 1887, invented his life as
well as his art. His adventures took him to Russia during the
revolution of 1905 (where he traveled on the Trans-Siberian
Railway), to New York in 1911, to the trenches of World War I
(where he lost his right arm), to Brazil in the 1920s, to Hollywood
in the 1930s, and back and forth across Europe. With Guillaume
Apollinaire and Max Jacob he was a pioneer of modernist literature,
working alongside artist friends such as Chagall, Delaunay,
Modigliani, and Leger, composers Eric Satie and Darius Milhaud, and
filmmaker Abel Gance. The range of Cendrars's poetry--from
classical rhymed alexandrines to "cubist" modernism, and from
feverish, even visionary, depression to airy good humor--offers a
challenge no translator has accepted until now.
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