Translating Apollinaire

Translating Apollinaire delves into Apollinaire’s poetry and poetics through the challenges and invitations it offers to the process of translation.

Besides providing a new appraisal of Apollinaire, the most significant French poet of WWI, Translating Apollinaire aims to put the ordinary reader at the center of the translational project. It proposes that translation’s primary task is to capture the responses of the reader to the poetic text, and to find ways of writing th…