Poems by Guillaume Apollinaire

Guillaume Apollinaire, a poet born in Rome, is one of the inventors of modern poetry. "Alcools" (1913), with "Le pont Mirabeau" and "La Chanson du Mal-Aimé," does away with punctuation, and "Calligrammes" (1918) turns lines of verse into drawings. He enlisted in 1914, was wounded in the head in 1916, and died of the Spanish flu two days before the armistice.