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Guillaume Apollinaire was not a Futurist, but he was briefly linked to the Futurist movement, largely because the unusual graphic design of his poems expressed words-in-freedom and appeared to liberate language in the ways expounded by the Futurists. His collaboration with the Futurists ended because of personal misunderstandings. Apollinaire fought in World War I and was wounded in 1916. He never completely recovered and died of influenza two days before the Armistice in November 1918. This text is from a collection of Futurist documents held by the University Library of ...