Alcools is a collection of poems by the French author Guillaume Apollinaire. His first major collection was published in 1913. The first poem in the collection, Zone, has been called "the great poem of early Modernism" by the scholar Martin Sorrell.
Guillaume Apollinaire, pseudonym of Guillelmus (or Wilhelm) Apollinaris de Kostrowitzki, (born August 26, 1880, Rome?, Italy—died November 9, 1918, Paris, France), poet who in his short life took part in all the avant-garde movements that flourished in French literary and artistic circles at the beginning of the 20th century and who helped to direct poetry into unexplored channels.