Arthur Symons translates a selection of Baudelaire’s Petits poèmes en prose, the experiments in a poetic prose without rhyme or metre: the favours of the moon, the invitation to the voyage, the eyes of the poor at a café window, crowds, a fight over a piece of bread, evening twilight and the longing to be anywhere out of the world.
A brief, haunting introduction to the founder of the modern prose poem. Download the free EPUB.