A poor poet in a Montparnasse garret tells of his year in verse and diary, through spring, summer, autumn and winter: hunger and wine, models and apaches, cafés like the Escargot d’Or, and friends such as Blanche and Celestine. Then war comes, and the later poems follow him into service with the ambulance corps on the Western Front.
Service’s Paris book, as tuneful and sentimental as his Yukon ballads, for lovers of bohemian legend. Download the free EPUB.