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Crayfish Poem after Raoul Dufy, 1911
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Crayfish Poem after Raoul Dufy, 1911

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Original woodcut from the famous book Le Bestiaire, ou Cortège d'Orphée, a collaboration between poet Guillaume Apollinaire and artist Raoul Dufy, 1911.  Apollinaire uses the crayfish's natural habit of swimming backward as a metaphor for uncertainty and a "retrograde" movement in life or love.  This specific poem, along with others from the Bestiary, was famously set to music by the...

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