The flowers of evil = (Les fleurs du mal) / Charles Baudelaire ; translated by Aaron Poochigian ; introduction by Dana Gioia ; afterword by Daniel Handler.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher:
Liveright Publishing Corporationa division of W.W. Norton & Company,
The Dream of an Odd Man. To the Reader -- SPLEEN AND THE IDEAL -- 125. Benediction -- 2. The Albatross -- 3. Elevation -- 4. Correspondences -- 5. I love recalling those antique, nude times ... -- 6. The Beacons -- 7. The Sick Muse -- 8. The Muse for Sale -- 9. The Bad Monk -- 10. The Fiend -- 11. Bad Luck -- 12. The Past Life -- 13. Traveling Gypsies -- 14. Man and the Sea -- 15. Don Juan in Hell -- 16. Punishment for Pride -- 17. Beauty -- 18. The Ideal -- 19. The Giantess -- 20. The Mask -- 21. Hymn to Beauty -- 21x. The Jewels -- 22. Exotic Perfume -- 23. Her Hair -- 24. I love you as I love nocturnal skies ... -- 25. Adulterated woman, you would screw the whole ... -- 26. Sed non satiata -- 27. When she, a billow of bejeweled clothing ... -- 28. A Serpent Dancing -- 29. A Carcass -- 30. De profundis clamavi -- 31. The Vampire -- 31x. Lethe -- 32. Once, sleeping with a horrid Jewish crone -- 33. Postmortem Remorse -- 34. The Cat -- 35. Duellum -- 36. The Balcony -- 37. The Possessed -- 38. A Phantom -- 39. I dedicate this poem to you so that ... -- 40. Semper eadem -- 41. All Together -- 42. What will you say tonight ... -- 43. The Lit Torch -- 43x. To One Who Is Too Cheerful -- 44. Reversibility -- 45. Confession -- 46. The Spiritual Dawn -- 47. The Harmony of Evening -- 48. The Perfume Bottle -- 49. Poison -- 50. Cloudy Sky -- 51. The Cat -- 52. The Beautiful Ship -- 53. The Invitation to the Voyage -- 54. The Irreparable -- 55. A Conversation -- 56. Autumn Song -- 57. To a Madonna -- 58. Song of the Afternoon -- 59. Sisina -- 60. Franciscae meae laudes -- 61. To a Creole Lady -- 62. Moesta et errabunda -- 63. The Revenant -- 64. Autumn Sonnet -- 65. The Sorrows of the Moon -- 66. The Cats -- 67. The Owls -- 68. The Pipe -- 69. Music -- 70. The Burial -- 71. A Fantastical Engraving -- 72. The Happy Corpse -- 73. The Cask of Hate -- 74. The Cracked Bell -- 75. Spleen (I) -- 76. Spleen (II) -- 77. Spleen (III) -- 78. Spleen (IV) -- 79. Obsession -- 80. The Taste for Nothingness -- 81. The Alchemy of Grief -- 82. Reflected Horror -- 83. Heautontimoroumenos -- 84. The Irremediable -- 85. The Clock -- PARISIAN SCENES -- 86. Landscape -- 87. The Sun -- 88. To a Red-Haired Beggar Girl -- 89. The Swan -- 90. The Seven Old Men -- 91. The Little Old Ladies -- 92. The Blind -- 93. To a Woman Passing -- 94. Skeleton Laborers -- 95. Twilight -- 96. Gambling -- 97. Danse Macabre -- 98. The Love of Lying -- 99. I still recall the little whitewashed lodging where ... -- 100. Think of my kind old nurse you once were jealous of ... -- 101. Mists and Rains -- 102. Parisian Dream -- 103. Morning Twilight -- WINE -- 104. The Soul of Wine -- 105. The Ragpickers' Wine -- 106. The Murderer's Wine -- 107. The Loner's Wine -- 108. The Lovers' Wine -- FLOWERS OF EVIL -- 109. Destruction -- 110. A Martyr -- 110x. Lesbos -- 110xx. The Damned Women: Delphine and Hippolyta -- 111. The Damned Women -- 112. The Two Good Sisters -- 113. The Fountain of Blood -- 114. Allegory -- 115. The Beatrice -- 115x. The Metamorphoses of the Vampire -- 116. A Voyage to Cythera -- 117. Love and the Skull -- REVOLT -- 118. Saint Peter's Denial -- 119. Abel and Cain -- 120. The Litanies of Satan -- DEATH -- 121. The Lovers' Death -- 122. The Death of the Poor -- 123. The Death of Artists -- 124. The End of the Day -- 125. The Dream of an Odd Man.
Summary:
"On the 200th anniversary of Baudelaire's birth comes this stunning, landmark translation of the book that launched modern poetry. A shocking, controversial work in its own time and the most influential book of poetry of the nineteenth century-"the greatest exemplar in modern poetry in any language" (T.S. Eliot)-Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil is a gritty, often perverse, exploration of the underbelly of urban modernity. Acclaimed translator and poet Aaron Poochigian tackles this revolutionary text with an ear attuned to Baudelaire's lyrical innovations and an intuitive feel for the work's dark and brooding mood. Poochigian's version captures the incantatory, almost magical, effect of the original-reanimating for today's reader Baudelaire's "unfailing vision" that "trumpeted the space and light of the future." (Patti Smith). An introduction by Dana Gioia offers a probing reassessment of the supreme artistry of Baudelaire's masterpiece,an afterword by Daniel Handler explores its continued relevance and appeal,and this deluxe, dual-language edition allows readers to commune with the original poems as well as with these electric, revelatory translations"-- Provided by publisher.
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