In the darkness of the summer night

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Calligrammes Eliasson In the darkness of theVerkkommentar I have been an avid reader of Guillaume Apollinaires surrealistic poetry ever since I travelled to Paris as a teenager in the late 1970s. There I discovered his poetry and brought it back with me when I returned home to my native Sweden. I immediately fell for the blend of humour, sorrow, longing for love and peace and innovation that I found in Apollinaires poems. He was at the forefront when modernism was established in Paris, and he