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In ''Dandelions'', Thea Lenarduzzi pieces together her family history through four generations’ worth of migration between Italy and England, and the stories scattered like seeds along the way. Where, or what, is home? What has it meant, historically and personally, to be 'Italian' or 'English', or both in a culture that prefers us to choose? What does it mean to have(...)
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In ''Dandelions'', Thea Lenarduzzi pieces together her family history through four generations’ worth of migration between Italy and England, and the stories scattered like seeds along the way. Where, or what, is home? What has it meant, historically and personally, to be 'Italian' or 'English', or both in a culture that prefers us to choose? What does it mean to have(...)
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In ''Dandelions'', Thea Lenarduzzi pieces together her family history through four generations’ worth of migration between Italy and England, and the stories scattered like seeds along the way. Where, or what, is home? What has it meant, historically and personally, to be 'Italian' or 'English', or both in a culture that prefers us to choose? What does it mean to have roots? Or to have left a piece of oneself somewhere long since abandoned? At the heart of this book brimming with the lives of remarkable and apparently unremarkable people is Thea’s grandmother Dirce, a former seamstress, who, now approaching 100, is a repository of tales that are by turns unpredictable, unreliable, significant. And that lead us deeper. There’s the one about Mussolini’s modern Icarus who crashed into the murk of a lake; about the Manchester factory worker who wanted only to be seen; about the shadowy demon who visits in your sleep; and the monument to a murdered politician that, when it rains, runs the colour of blood. Through the journeys of Dirce and her relatives, from the Friuli to Sheffield and Manchester and back again, a different kind of history emerges, in which self and place are warp and weft, tightly woven, with threads left hazardously trailing.
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In ''Dandelions'', Thea Lenarduzzi pieces together her family history through four generations’ worth of migration between Italy and England, and the stories scattered like seeds along the way. Where, or what, is home? What has it meant, historically and personally, to be 'Italian' or 'English', or both in a culture that prefers us to choose? What does it mean to have roots? Or to have left a piece of oneself somewhere long since abandoned? At the heart of this book brimming with the lives of remarkable and apparently unremarkable people is Thea’s grandmother Dirce, a former seamstress, who, now approaching 100, is a repository of tales that are by turns unpredictable, unreliable, significant. And that lead us deeper. There’s the one about Mussolini’s modern Icarus who crashed into the murk of a lake; about the Manchester factory worker who wanted only to be seen; about the shadowy demon who visits in your sleep; and the monument to a murdered politician that, when it rains, runs the colour of blood. Through the journeys of Dirce and her relatives, from the Friuli to Sheffield and Manchester and back again, a different kind of history emerges, in which self and place are warp and weft, tightly woven, with threads left hazardously trailing.
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May 2023
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Depuis quarante ans, les éditions P.O.L ont affirmé leur place dans le champ de l'édition française. Une place décisive pour l'émergence et la définition de ce qu'on peut appeler le contemporain en littérature, comme en témoignent les contributions rassemblées dans cet ouvrage, qui réunit des universitaires, des auteurs et autrices, et les responsables de la maison(...)
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Depuis quarante ans, les éditions P.O.L ont affirmé leur place dans le champ de l'édition française. Une place décisive pour l'émergence et la définition de ce qu'on peut appeler le contemporain en littérature, comme en témoignent les contributions rassemblées dans cet ouvrage, qui réunit des universitaires, des auteurs et autrices, et les responsables de la maison(...)
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March 2023
March 2023
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P.O.L : Futur, ancien, actuel
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Depuis quarante ans, les éditions P.O.L ont affirmé leur place dans le champ de l'édition française. Une place décisive pour l'émergence et la définition de ce qu'on peut appeler le contemporain en littérature, comme en témoignent les contributions rassemblées dans cet ouvrage, qui réunit des universitaires, des auteurs et autrices, et les responsables de la maison d'édition. Il s'agit de montrer comment P.O.L a pu non seulement refléter mais, plus encore, donner forme au contemporain, en raison de la personnalité et des choix de ses éditeurs, Paul Otchakovsky-Laurens puis Frédéric Boyer; en raison d'un catalogue ouvert qui revendique des choix forts (quant à la place de la poésie et du cinéma en particulier); en raison, enfin, d'une attention constante aux matérialités (langue, genres, dispositifs) du littéraire et à leur renouveau.
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Depuis quarante ans, les éditions P.O.L ont affirmé leur place dans le champ de l'édition française. Une place décisive pour l'émergence et la définition de ce qu'on peut appeler le contemporain en littérature, comme en témoignent les contributions rassemblées dans cet ouvrage, qui réunit des universitaires, des auteurs et autrices, et les responsables de la maison d'édition. Il s'agit de montrer comment P.O.L a pu non seulement refléter mais, plus encore, donner forme au contemporain, en raison de la personnalité et des choix de ses éditeurs, Paul Otchakovsky-Laurens puis Frédéric Boyer; en raison d'un catalogue ouvert qui revendique des choix forts (quant à la place de la poésie et du cinéma en particulier); en raison, enfin, d'une attention constante aux matérialités (langue, genres, dispositifs) du littéraire et à leur renouveau.
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March 2023
March 2023
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Au large de l’Écosse, en mer du Nord, à la croisée de plusieurs routes maritimes, se trouve un récif meurtrier, où les navires s’abîment par dizaines. En 1807, un homme décide de mettre fin à cette malédiction. Ingénieur pour la Compagnie des Phares du Nord, Robert Stevenson se lance dans une entreprise périlleuse : ériger un phare sur un récif immergé vingt heures par(...)
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Au large de l’Écosse, en mer du Nord, à la croisée de plusieurs routes maritimes, se trouve un récif meurtrier, où les navires s’abîment par dizaines. En 1807, un homme décide de mettre fin à cette malédiction. Ingénieur pour la Compagnie des Phares du Nord, Robert Stevenson se lance dans une entreprise périlleuse : ériger un phare sur un récif immergé vingt heures par(...)
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Journal de la construction d'un phare
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Au large de l’Écosse, en mer du Nord, à la croisée de plusieurs routes maritimes, se trouve un récif meurtrier, où les navires s’abîment par dizaines. En 1807, un homme décide de mettre fin à cette malédiction. Ingénieur pour la Compagnie des Phares du Nord, Robert Stevenson se lance dans une entreprise périlleuse : ériger un phare sur un récif immergé vingt heures par jour. Trois années durant, dans des conditions chaotiques, il coordonne le chantier de Bell Rock. Animés par la volonté de rendre la mer plus sûre, ses hommes et lui luttent contre vents et marées pour mener à bien ce projet ambitieux. En racontant l’histoire de sa famille et en publiant les carnets de son grand-père, Robert Louis Stevenson rend non seulement hommage à la dynastie de pionniers et de bâtisseurs dont il est issu, mais il révèle aussi au public une formidable aventure collective.
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Au large de l’Écosse, en mer du Nord, à la croisée de plusieurs routes maritimes, se trouve un récif meurtrier, où les navires s’abîment par dizaines. En 1807, un homme décide de mettre fin à cette malédiction. Ingénieur pour la Compagnie des Phares du Nord, Robert Stevenson se lance dans une entreprise périlleuse : ériger un phare sur un récif immergé vingt heures par jour. Trois années durant, dans des conditions chaotiques, il coordonne le chantier de Bell Rock. Animés par la volonté de rendre la mer plus sûre, ses hommes et lui luttent contre vents et marées pour mener à bien ce projet ambitieux. En racontant l’histoire de sa famille et en publiant les carnets de son grand-père, Robert Louis Stevenson rend non seulement hommage à la dynastie de pionniers et de bâtisseurs dont il est issu, mais il révèle aussi au public une formidable aventure collective.
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April 2023
April 2023
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Museum visits
Museum visits
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This ensemble of comic miniatures compiles reflections on chairs, stairs, stones, goldfish, objects found, strangers observed, scenarios imagined, reasonable premises taken to absurd conclusions, and vice versa. The author erects a mental museum for his favorite artworks, only to find it swarming with tourists. He attends a harpsichord recital and lets his passions flare.(...)
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This ensemble of comic miniatures compiles reflections on chairs, stairs, stones, goldfish, objects found, strangers observed, scenarios imagined, reasonable premises taken to absurd conclusions, and vice versa. The author erects a mental museum for his favorite artworks, only to find it swarming with tourists. He attends a harpsichord recital and lets his passions flare.(...)
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February 2024
February 2024
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Museum visits
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This ensemble of comic miniatures compiles reflections on chairs, stairs, stones, goldfish, objects found, strangers observed, scenarios imagined, reasonable premises taken to absurd conclusions, and vice versa. The author erects a mental museum for his favorite artworks, only to find it swarming with tourists. He attends a harpsichord recital and lets his passions flare. He happens upon a piece of paper and imagines its sordid back story. He wonders if Hegel’s cap, on display in Stuttgart, is really worth the trip. Throughout, Chevillard’s powers of observation chime with his verbal acrobatics. His gaze—initially superficial, then deeply attentive, then practically sociopathic—manages time and again to defamiliarize the familiar with a coherent and charismatic charm. Daniel Levin Becker’s translation deftly renders the marvels of the original, and a foreword by Daniel Medin offers rich contextual commentary, making a vital wing of French literature and humor newly accessible in English.
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This ensemble of comic miniatures compiles reflections on chairs, stairs, stones, goldfish, objects found, strangers observed, scenarios imagined, reasonable premises taken to absurd conclusions, and vice versa. The author erects a mental museum for his favorite artworks, only to find it swarming with tourists. He attends a harpsichord recital and lets his passions flare. He happens upon a piece of paper and imagines its sordid back story. He wonders if Hegel’s cap, on display in Stuttgart, is really worth the trip. Throughout, Chevillard’s powers of observation chime with his verbal acrobatics. His gaze—initially superficial, then deeply attentive, then practically sociopathic—manages time and again to defamiliarize the familiar with a coherent and charismatic charm. Daniel Levin Becker’s translation deftly renders the marvels of the original, and a foreword by Daniel Medin offers rich contextual commentary, making a vital wing of French literature and humor newly accessible in English.
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February 2024
February 2024
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With the warm ring of the spoken word at their centre, Taqralik Partridge’s poems wrestle with colonisation and racial violence while also reflecting rich sensory imagery—from the stain of blueberries, to the relationships of sisters and aunts, to a knowledge of the land. Originally from Kuujjuaq, Nunavik, Quebec, and now living in Kautokeino, Norway, Taqralik Partridge(...)
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With the warm ring of the spoken word at their centre, Taqralik Partridge’s poems wrestle with colonisation and racial violence while also reflecting rich sensory imagery—from the stain of blueberries, to the relationships of sisters and aunts, to a knowledge of the land. Originally from Kuujjuaq, Nunavik, Quebec, and now living in Kautokeino, Norway, Taqralik Partridge(...)
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curved against the hull of a peterhead
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With the warm ring of the spoken word at their centre, Taqralik Partridge’s poems wrestle with colonisation and racial violence while also reflecting rich sensory imagery—from the stain of blueberries, to the relationships of sisters and aunts, to a knowledge of the land. Originally from Kuujjuaq, Nunavik, Quebec, and now living in Kautokeino, Norway, Taqralik Partridge is an Inuk textile artist, curator, writer, and spoken word poet. This is her debut poetry collection.
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With the warm ring of the spoken word at their centre, Taqralik Partridge’s poems wrestle with colonisation and racial violence while also reflecting rich sensory imagery—from the stain of blueberries, to the relationships of sisters and aunts, to a knowledge of the land. Originally from Kuujjuaq, Nunavik, Quebec, and now living in Kautokeino, Norway, Taqralik Partridge is an Inuk textile artist, curator, writer, and spoken word poet. This is her debut poetry collection.
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June 2024
June 2024
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Cautionary tales
Cautionary tales
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Janice Grey’s debut collection of short stories, "Cautionary tales", centres narratives of contemporary Inuit lives with searing precision. Her witty, compelling voice relays at once both the intricacy of families and the suspense and intensity of supernatural beings and events; mixing as she does dreams, visions, and the everyday in this powerful new work.
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Janice Grey’s debut collection of short stories, "Cautionary tales", centres narratives of contemporary Inuit lives with searing precision. Her witty, compelling voice relays at once both the intricacy of families and the suspense and intensity of supernatural beings and events; mixing as she does dreams, visions, and the everyday in this powerful new work.
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Cautionary tales
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Janice Grey’s debut collection of short stories, "Cautionary tales", centres narratives of contemporary Inuit lives with searing precision. Her witty, compelling voice relays at once both the intricacy of families and the suspense and intensity of supernatural beings and events; mixing as she does dreams, visions, and the everyday in this powerful new work.
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Janice Grey’s debut collection of short stories, "Cautionary tales", centres narratives of contemporary Inuit lives with searing precision. Her witty, compelling voice relays at once both the intricacy of families and the suspense and intensity of supernatural beings and events; mixing as she does dreams, visions, and the everyday in this powerful new work.
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June 2024
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Hold steady my vision
Hold steady my vision
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"Hold steady my vision", Emily Laurent Henerson's first poetry collection, is full of softness, intimacy, and movement across thresholds. Her poems treat changes-- in bodies, in relations between people and place, and in shifting states of being.
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"Hold steady my vision", Emily Laurent Henerson's first poetry collection, is full of softness, intimacy, and movement across thresholds. Her poems treat changes-- in bodies, in relations between people and place, and in shifting states of being.
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Hold steady my vision
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"Hold steady my vision", Emily Laurent Henerson's first poetry collection, is full of softness, intimacy, and movement across thresholds. Her poems treat changes-- in bodies, in relations between people and place, and in shifting states of being.
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"Hold steady my vision", Emily Laurent Henerson's first poetry collection, is full of softness, intimacy, and movement across thresholds. Her poems treat changes-- in bodies, in relations between people and place, and in shifting states of being.
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June 2024
June 2024
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Kinauvunga?
Kinauvunga?
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With striking imagery, "KINAUVUNGA?" —Aedan Corey’s second collection of poetry, explores contrasting themes of loss and learning, the poignancy of everyday activities, ancestral and family connection, grief and memory, and queer Inuit experience. Illustrations by Aedan Corey.
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With striking imagery, "KINAUVUNGA?" —Aedan Corey’s second collection of poetry, explores contrasting themes of loss and learning, the poignancy of everyday activities, ancestral and family connection, grief and memory, and queer Inuit experience. Illustrations by Aedan Corey.
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Kinauvunga?
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With striking imagery, "KINAUVUNGA?" —Aedan Corey’s second collection of poetry, explores contrasting themes of loss and learning, the poignancy of everyday activities, ancestral and family connection, grief and memory, and queer Inuit experience. Illustrations by Aedan Corey.
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With striking imagery, "KINAUVUNGA?" —Aedan Corey’s second collection of poetry, explores contrasting themes of loss and learning, the poignancy of everyday activities, ancestral and family connection, grief and memory, and queer Inuit experience. Illustrations by Aedan Corey.
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June 2024
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Notes from an island
Notes from an island
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In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunström, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless island in the Gulf of Finland. The island was Klovharun, where for thirty summers Tove and her beloved partner, the visual artist, Tuulikki “Tooti” Pietilä, lived, painted, and wrote, energized by the solitude and shifting seascapes. The(...)
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In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunström, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless island in the Gulf of Finland. The island was Klovharun, where for thirty summers Tove and her beloved partner, the visual artist, Tuulikki “Tooti” Pietilä, lived, painted, and wrote, energized by the solitude and shifting seascapes. The(...)
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In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunström, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless island in the Gulf of Finland. The island was Klovharun, where for thirty summers Tove and her beloved partner, the visual artist, Tuulikki “Tooti” Pietilä, lived, painted, and wrote, energized by the solitude and shifting seascapes. The island’s flora, fauna, and weather patterns provided deep inspiration which can be seen reflected in all of Jansson’s work, most famously in her bestselling novel ''The Summer Book'' and her longstanding comic strip and novels for children, ''Moomin''. Tove’s signature spare, quirky prose, and Tooti’s subtle ink washes and aquatints combine to form a work of meditative beauty, a chronicle of living peacefully in nature and observing the island’s ecology and character. ''Notes from an Island'' is both a work of artistic collaboration and an homage to the deep love the two women shared. One feels as if Jansson’s journal, with Tooti’s sketches tucked inside, has been unearthed like a treasure from under a pile of old quilts in the back of their rustic cabin.
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In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunström, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless island in the Gulf of Finland. The island was Klovharun, where for thirty summers Tove and her beloved partner, the visual artist, Tuulikki “Tooti” Pietilä, lived, painted, and wrote, energized by the solitude and shifting seascapes. The island’s flora, fauna, and weather patterns provided deep inspiration which can be seen reflected in all of Jansson’s work, most famously in her bestselling novel ''The Summer Book'' and her longstanding comic strip and novels for children, ''Moomin''. Tove’s signature spare, quirky prose, and Tooti’s subtle ink washes and aquatints combine to form a work of meditative beauty, a chronicle of living peacefully in nature and observing the island’s ecology and character. ''Notes from an Island'' is both a work of artistic collaboration and an homage to the deep love the two women shared. One feels as if Jansson’s journal, with Tooti’s sketches tucked inside, has been unearthed like a treasure from under a pile of old quilts in the back of their rustic cabin.
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October 2024
October 2024
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The flowers of evil
The flowers of evil
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Probing the depths of the modern psyche in a voice at once caustic and vulnerable, melancholic and humorous, Baudelaire’s infamous book brings to the surface a new understanding of evil, of eroticism, and of social life through an astonishing variety of poetic forms and styles. This edition adds the poems banned from the original 1857 publication to the expanded(...)
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Probing the depths of the modern psyche in a voice at once caustic and vulnerable, melancholic and humorous, Baudelaire’s infamous book brings to the surface a new understanding of evil, of eroticism, and of social life through an astonishing variety of poetic forms and styles. This edition adds the poems banned from the original 1857 publication to the expanded(...)
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The flowers of evil
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Probing the depths of the modern psyche in a voice at once caustic and vulnerable, melancholic and humorous, Baudelaire’s infamous book brings to the surface a new understanding of evil, of eroticism, and of social life through an astonishing variety of poetic forms and styles. This edition adds the poems banned from the original 1857 publication to the expanded collection of 1861 and includes an introduction from the translator, acclaimed poetry scholar Nathan Brown.
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Probing the depths of the modern psyche in a voice at once caustic and vulnerable, melancholic and humorous, Baudelaire’s infamous book brings to the surface a new understanding of evil, of eroticism, and of social life through an astonishing variety of poetic forms and styles. This edition adds the poems banned from the original 1857 publication to the expanded collection of 1861 and includes an introduction from the translator, acclaimed poetry scholar Nathan Brown.
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November 2024
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