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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,
“... the way Rilke or Jarry or Apollinaire did. (Never mind other teen crushes like Charlie Parker and William Burroughs, Frank O’Hara and Andy Warhol.) He felt like a poet with a capital P, writhing in the coils of Church and Satan, Evil and Beauty, Sin and Damnation. Which, God knows, all held plenty of allure for a sulky, half-Catholic male adolescent. But ... ”