Birds, Beasts and a World Made New by Guillaume Apollinaire and Velimir Khlebnikov, translated by Robert Chandler
Poetry Book Society Translation Choice 2024
Penguin Peter Sirr

Peter Sirr

this book is not gentle

hears our own

fatherless and husbandless

to create an entirely bilingual poetry collection

Birds, Beasts and a World Made New by Guillaume Apollinaire and Velimir Khlebnikov, translated by Robert Chandler<br><b>Poetry Book Society Translation Choice 2024</b><br> Penguin Peter SirrA revelatory volume of two of the twentieth century's great poetic innovators, Guillaume Apollinaire and Velimir Khlebnikov, in vibrant new translations by Robert Chandler Guillaume Apollinaire and Velimir Khlebnikov never met, but they have much in common. Both inventive luminaries of Modernism, they played a central role in the avant garde movements of their time and worked closely with the most important visual artists around them. Written with