Willard Bohn
Willard Bohn is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature at Illinois State University. While his interests encompass modern literature and art in general, he has published extensively on Futurism, Dada and Surrealism, Guillaume Apollinaire, Giorgio de Chirico, and modern visual poetry. An active scholar, he has authored one hundred and fifty-eight articles and fourteen books, including The Avant-Garde Imperative (2013), Reading Visual Poetry (2011), Apollinaire on the Edge (2010), Italian Futurist Poetry (2005), The Other Futurism: Futurist Activity in Venice, Padua, and Verona (2004), The Rise of Surrealism (2001), Modern Visual Poetry ( 2000), Apollinaire and the International Avant-Garde (1997), The Aesthetics of Visual Poetry, 1914-1928 (1986 & 1993), and Apollinaire and the Faceless Man (1991).