{{Short description|1918 poetry collection by Guillaume Apollinaire}} {{For|the type of artwork|Calligram}} {{italic title}} [[File:Guillaume Apollinaire Calligramme.JPG|thumb|A calligram from ''Calligrammes'']] '''''Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War 1913–1916''''', is a collection of poems by Guillaume Apollinaire which was first published in 1918. ''Calligrammes'' is noted for how the typeface and spatial arrangement of the words on a page plays just as much of a role in the meaning of each poem as the words themselves – a form called a calligram. In this sense, the collection can be seen as either concrete poetry or visual poetry.
Apollinaire described his work as "an idealisation of free verse poetry and typographical precision in an era when typography is reaching a brilliant end to its career, at the dawn of the new means of reproduction that are the cinema and the phonograph".<ref name="Calligrammes 7">Apollinaire, Guillaume, quoted in the preface by Michel Butor. ''Calligrammes'', p. 7 (Éditions Gallimard, preface copyright 1966).</ref>
==Gallery== <gallery> File:Guillaume Apollinaire - Calligramme - Cheval.png|''Cheval'' File:Guillaume Apollinaire - Calligramme - La Colombe poignardée et le Jet d’eau.png|''La Colombe poignardée et le Jet d’eau'' File:Guillaume Apollinaire - Calligramme - Cœur, couronne et miroir.png|''Cœur, couronne et miroir'' File:Guillaume Apollinaire - Calligramme - L'oiseau et le bouquet.png|''L'oiseau et le bouquet'' File:Guillaume Apollinaire - Calligramme - La Mandoline, l’œillet et le bambou.png|''La Mandoline, l’œillet et le bambou'' File:Guillaume Apollinaire Voyage.jpg|''Voyage'' File:Guillaume Apollinaire - Calligramme - Venu de Dieuze.png|''Venu de Dieuze'' File:Ilpleut.png|''Il pleut'' File:Guillaume Apollinaire, Calligramme.jpg|A calligram from ''Calligrammes''<ref>[http://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/cgi-bin/bluemtn?a=d&d=bmtnaab192010-01.2.25.4&srpos=1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-IN-kisling----# Action: Cahiers Individualistes De Philosophie Et D’art, October 1920], Blue Mountain Project, Princeton University</ref> File:Guillaume Apollinaire, Calligram.jpg|A calligram from ''Calligrammes'' </gallery>
==Notes== {{Reflist}}
==References== *Apollinaire, Guillaume. ''Calligrammes''. Preface by Michel Butor. (Éditions Gallimard, 1995) {{ISBN|2-07-030008-0}}
== External links == * [https://archive.org/details/calligrammespo00apol ''Calligrammes; poèmes de la paix et da la guerre, 1913–1916''] digitized original at the Internet Archive * [https://wikilivres.org/wiki/Calligrammes ''Calligrammes'']{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} (full text) * [https://www.oswaldogonzalez.net/en/calligrammes/ ''Calligrammes, for piano trio'']
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