New boots
By: Guillaume Apollinaire ; [English translation by Richard Stokes]
Contributors: McMurray, Mark; Stokes, Richard; Caliban Press
Publisher: Caliban Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Canton, N.Y
Language: eng
Subjects: War and literature; Visual poetry
Work titles: Bleuet
Notes: "Written during the First World War and originally published in the Parisian journal Nord-sud in 1917, Bleuet is Apollainaire's poetic meditation on youth and war.  The original title is a complex reference to the new French recruits and their cornflower blue uniforms.  For this edition the title has been loosely translated as New Boots.  The poem remains poignant in the context of today's wars as it was in 1917."--Prospectus.

The original shaped verse of Apollinaire's appears on the opening verso with the English translation, also shaped as a mirror image of the French, on the opposite recto.

"Designed & printed by Mark McMurray at Caliban Press."--Colophon.

"100 numbered copies on mouldmade paper. 14 copies hors commerce on handmade paper."--Colophon.

Rare Book copy: No. 75, initialled by the designer.

Endpapers made from a cut-up tactical pilotage chart topographic map of Iraq.

Prospectus laid in.

In French and English.