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Ian Penman: Baudelaire’s Bad End, 16 March 2023
Late Fragments: ‘Flares’, ‘My Heart Laid Bare’, Prose Poems, ‘Belgium Disrobed’
by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Richard Sieburth.
Yale, 427 pp., £16.99, March,978 0 300 27049 5 Show More
by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Richard Sieburth.
Yale, 427 pp., £16.99, March,
“... push to its limits.’ In my own time, punk and its aftermath saw a blizzard of French namedrops: Thomas Miller – the frontman of Television, who died recently – became Tom Verlaine, while his sometime girlfriend Patti Smith hollered ‘Go Rimbaud, go Rimbaud!’ and his pal Richard Hell traded Huysmans lines with Lester Bangs. One of the founding members ... ”