EAN: 9781324092919

THE FLOWERS OF EVIL - CHARLES BAUDELAIRE TASCHE...

Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic  but ambitious to secure a more lasting
literary legacy  Charles Baudelaire  a Parisian bohemian  spent much of the 1840s composing
gritty  often perverse  poems that expressed his disgust with the banality of modern city life.
First published in 1857  the book that collected these poems together  Les Fleurs du mal  was
an instant sensation-earning Baudelaire plaudits and  simultaneously  disrepute. Only a year
after Gustave Flaubert had endured his own public trial for published indecency (for Madame
Bovary)  a French court declared Les Fleurs du mal an offense against public morals and six
poems within it were immediately suppressed (a ruling that would not be reversed until 1949 
nearly a century after Baudelaire's untimely death). Subsequent editions expanded on the
original  including new poems that have since been recognized as Baudelaire's masterpieces 
producing a body of work that stands as the most consequential  controversial and influential
book of poetry from the nineteenth century. Acclaimed translator and poet Aaron Poochigian
tackles this revolutionary text with an ear attuned to Baudelaire's lyrical
innovations-rendering them in an assertive blend of full and slant rhymes and fluent iambs (A.
E. Stallings)-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  and an afterword by Daniel Handler explores its continued relevance
and appeal. Featuring the poems in English and French  this deluxe dual-language edition allows
readers to commune both with the original poems and with these electric  revelatory
translations.

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