Le Style Apollinaire

JEAN DAIVE (1941) is a Belgian poet and translator. He is the author of novels, collections of poetry and has translated work by Paul Celan and Robert Creeley among others. He has edited encyclopedias, worked as a radio journalist and producer with France Culture, and has edited four magazines: fragment (1970 73), fig. (1989 91), FIN (1999 2006) and K.O.S.H.K.O.N.O.N.G. (from 2013 to the present). Publishing since the 1960s, Daive is known as one of the important French avant-garde poets. Also a photographer, Daive chairs the Centre international de poesie de Marseille.

"Le Style Apollinaire is a beautiful palimpset, a vivid text, a book of Baroque intensity, demanding and playful." - Donald Revell, translator of Apollinaire's Alcools (Wesleyan, 1995); "An idiosyncratic book of great interest. Many of Zukofsky's statements about Apollinaire go beyond their ostensible subject, toward developing a contemporary aesthetic. An aesthetic of the inclusive and manifold, rather than of unity - and extremely important for American poetry." - Rosmarie Waldrop, author of The Reproduction of Profiles