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Tag: WWI

Poems

Zone – Guillaume Apollinaire

July 3, 2017July 3, 2017 Fariba

This is my recitation of Guillaume Apollinaire’s Zone (1913) in French.

Here is a link to a brilliant English translation by David Lehman: http://www.vqronline.org/translations/apollinaires-zone

Version Originale: http://www.poetica.fr/poeme-793/guillaume-apollinaire-zone/

 

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