Flowers of EvilCharles Baudelaire In the annals of literature, few single volumes of poetry have achieved the influence and notoriety of The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du Mal) by Charles Baudelaire (1821 67). Banned and slighted in his lifetime, the book that contains all of Baudelaires verses has opened up vistas to the imagination and quickened sensibilities of poets everywhere. Yet it is questionable whether a single translator can give adequate voice to

‘Ik ben nu jouw klimop

the hag rises

remade by Megan Sungyoon

yoking abecedarian and Fibonacci sequences

other writers (such as Jorge Luis Borges and Philip Lamantia)

Like the wavering foliage which inspired William Wordsworth's autobiographical epic

in Neem dit lichaam is sprake van een innerlijke reis

unearthing fertile possibilities for the ways we think about poetry

representing his entire career

surprise and transgression as artistic strategies

social criticism and autobiography

along with 80 pages of previously uncollected material