Book description
Paris, the City of Light, was once the scene of a brilliant magnesium
flare, host to the belle epoque from 1900 to 1914. Tempting poets,
painters, writers, and composers from across Europe, the city relied
on one man to move among them all-Guillaume Apollinaire. His
contemporaries called him brilliant, mad, whimsical. He was the
bastard son of an Italian cavalry officer and a Polish woman addicted
to gambling, but nevertheless let it be rumoured around Paris that he
was the son of the pope.
Mark Frutkin has published two previous volumes of poetry, Acts
of Light and The Alchemy of Clouds. The Governor
General's Award nominee has also published six novels, including
Slow Lightning, The Lion of Venice, Atmospheres
Apollinaire, and Invading Tibet. His newest work is Iron
Mountain (Fall 2001). His work has appeared in the United States,
England, Holland, and India, as well as Canada. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario.
