alcohols

This collection, which Apollinaire took 16 years to develop, announces the quest for modernity, play with tradition, formal renewal of the poetry of the author. Alcohols is a polyphonic, plural collection that explores many aspects of poetry, ranging from elegy to free verse, mixing everyday life with Rhenish landscapes in a poetry that is experimental, combining almost formal perfection with great beauty. a hermeticism, an art of shock, of electroshock, which earned Apollinaire the qualification of being a hoaxer. Alcools shows the poet torn by his love breaks.