Charles Baudelaire
In this classic collection of prose poems, French poet Charles Baudelaire explores hypocrisy, madness, and biting criticism of nineteenth-century elites, diving without hesitation into the murkiest of human waters. Baudelaire was attracted to dirt and degradation, to the seamier side of life, the negative aspects of experience. Here is the poet as garbage collector, or perhaps garbage sifter, reclaiming value from that which society rejects, recycling
...Baudelaire's most famous collection of poems is The Flowers of Evil, which was published in 1857 and which was widely condemned as being unwholesome and decadent. The publication actually led to Baudelaire being prosecuted on a charge of offending public morals.
There have been numerous translations of Baudelaire's work into English, but many of them have been judged as not being particularly successful. Sturm's version of The Flowers of
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