Paris Spleen: Little Poems in Prose »

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE (1821-1867) wrote some of the most influential poetry of the nineteenth century in books including Les Fleurs du Mal and Le Spleen de Paris.

KEITH WALDROP is author of numerous collections of poetry and is the translator of The Selected Poems of Edmond Jabes, as well as works by Claude Royet-Journoud, Anne-Marie Albiach, and Jean Grosjean.

A modernist classic translated for the twenty-first century

Translator's Introduction Dedication: for Arsene Houssaye The Stranger An Old Woman's Despair The Artist's Confiteor A Joker Double Bedroom To Each His Chimaera The Fool and Venus Dog and Flask The Bad Glazier One A.M.
Wild Woman and Little Darling The Crowd Widows The Old Showman Cake The Clock A Hemisphere in a Head of Hair Invitation to the Voyage A Toy for the Poor Fairy Gifts Temptations or Eros, Plutus and Glory Evening Twilight Solitude Planning Dorothea the Beautiful The Eyes of the Poor An Heroic Death The False Coin Generous Gambler The Rope Callings The Thyrsus Be Drunk Already!
Windows The Urge to Paint Moon Favors Which Is the True?
A Thoroughbred The Mirror The Port Mistresses Portrayed The Gallant Marksman Soup and Clouds Shooting-Gallery and Cemetery Lost Halo Mademoiselle Bistoury Anywhere Out of the World Knock Down the Poor!
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