Zone is the fruit of poettranslator Ron Padgetts fiftyyear engagement with the work of Frances greatest modern poet. This bilingual edition of Apollinaires poetry represents the full range of his achievement from traditional lyric verse to the pathbreaking visual poems he called calligrams from oftenanthologized classics to hithertountranslated gems from poems of cosmic breadth to a poem about his shoes. Including an introduction by the distinguished scholar Peter Read helpful endnotes a pre