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Recognize Yourself - Apollinaire - Calligram Poem Poster

Recognize Yourself - Apollinaire - Calligram Poem Poster

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  • Poster created in France
  • Papier 100% éco-responsable100% eco-friendly paper
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"Reconnais-toi..."

Context of the work

This calligram is one of the poems Apollinaire dedicated to Lou (Louise de Coligny-Châtillon), his mistress, to whom he sent his poems from the front. Written on 9 February 1915 and published in Poèmes à Lou, it illustrates the intimate and experimental style of this wartime love correspondence.

What does Apollinaire's "Reconnais-toi" mean?

This calligram is one of the poems Apollinaire sent from the front to Lou, his mistress, blending intimate love and experimental visual form, published in Poèmes à Lou.

What size to choose for this Reconnais-toi poster?

This Reconnais-toi poster is available in 30 x 40 cm, 40 x 50 cm and 50 x 70 cm. The 30 x 40 cm size is suitable for a hallway, office or gallery wall; the 50 x 70 cm size stands alone above a sofa or bed. The frame is not included, the sizes are standard and can be found commercially.

Gift idea for a romantic, a visual poetry enthusiast, or a lover of historical love letters.

Lean in close and you'll see the letters aren't perfectly crisp. That's because they come from a page written by hand more than 100 years ago. Between a clean copy in a modern font and the real type of the period, we chose the real thing.

Features and formats

Available sizes: 30 x 40 cm, 40 x 50 cm, 50 x 70 cm
Paper: thick eco-friendly matte paper
Printing: high resolution, colorfast over time
Frame: not included
Print medium: poster, art print on matt paper
Theme: calligram, visual poetry
Average delivery times observed: 3 working days, careful packaging

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Close-up of the grain of our thick eco-friendly matte 170 gsm paper
The paper grain, up close.

Heure d'été Editions

Beautiful words deserve beautiful paper

These verses are set to be hung: a chosen typeface, measured margins, white space worked around the text. It is this layout that makes you want to read them again.

The paper is an uncoated matte 170 gsm. Its surface stays slightly fibrous, the ink sinks in, the light spreads across it. You read it the way you read a book.

It is eco-friendly paper from sustainably managed forests, and printed as close to you as possible to shorten transport.

Hanging a poem is not the same as reading it once. The text stays there, you catch two lines in passing, and the day pauses for a second. It is a moment you give yourself, and offer to those who live with you.

There is a quiet pleasure in living with French literature in the original. The poem keeps the language it was written in, and with it the sound the writer chose, which no translation quite carries over. On an English-speaking wall it stops being decoration and becomes something with a little cachet: a piece of France you can read on your way past, every morning.

It earns the large format. At 50x70 cm the text is read from across the room, and the page holds a wall the way a painting does.

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