Easter in New York

Easter in New York is a poem of Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961), published in 1912 under the title Easter with the New men, a publisher which it created the same year with Emil Szittya. It is into 1919 that the poem will receive its final title.

It is one of the texts founders of modern poetry. It influences Apollinaire and all the literary movement which is created around him.

Imprisoned with Health to have stolen to the display Hérésiarque & Co , a collection of tales of Apollinaire, Cendrars forwards to this last a letter recalling him that it had sent to him a specimen of the Easter a few weeks before and asking him its assistance. Perhaps thus it meets finally Apollinaire who makes it penetrate in the movement of modern poetry, uses it as negro and is inspired by him in certain poems of Alcools.

The undeniable resemblances which one raises between Easter and Zone were the subject of many debates and controversies of which it is difficult to draw from the final decisions.

Editions

Easter . Editions of the New men. With a drawing of the author in frontispiece. Paris, 1912.
Easter in New York in Of the whole world , Paris, Gallimard, 1919.
Collection in complete Poetries , foreword of Jacques-Henry Lévesque. Paris, Denoël, 1944.
complete Poetries, with 41 new poems . Paris, Denoël, coll " All around aujourd' hui" , volume 1,2001. Texts presented and annotated by Claude Leroy.
Of the whole world in the middle of the world , complete poetries. Preface of Paul Morand. Edition established by Claude Leroy. Paris, " Poetry/Gallimard" , 2006.

Critical references

Michel Décaudin, Alcohols of Guillaume Apollinaire , Gallimard, " Foliothèque" , 1993.
Marie-Paule Berranger, Of the whole world in the middle of the world of Blaise Cendrars , Gallimard, " Foliothèque" , 2007.

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