To their chestnut colored wives" and begins "The yellow fades from red to green".  
One poem by this man asks "Where is the Christopher Columbus to whom is owed the / forgetting of a continent" and declares "We are going farther without ever advancing", and another of his poem's states "The Octoroons sing songs of dying / To their chestnut colored wives" and begins "The yellow fades from red to green".  In a novella, this author described the rise to fame and subsequent murder by a mob of Croniamantal.  The author of Always, Windows, and The Poet Assassinated also wrote a poem which states "The most modern European is you Pope Pius X" and begins "You are tired at last of this old world / O shepherd Eiffel Tower the flock of bridges bleats at the morning", Zone.  In one play by this author, the title character's husband gives birth to 40,000 children in one afternoon after she abandons him and becomes a general.  FTP, name this French author of the poetry collections Calligrammes and Alcools as well as the play The Breasts of Tiresias.
One poem by this man asks "Where is the Christopher Columbus to whom is owed the / forgetting of a continent" and declares "We are going farther without ever advancing", and another of his poem's states "The Octoroons sing songs of dying /
Guillaume Apollinaire