Flowers of Evil Tu Fu the hum of a permanently

the hum of a permanently empty refrigerator

Orides Fontela

and then from the striking originals that retain such a sense of early human presence

Ook zitten er persoonlijke gedichten tussen

while pointing obliquely at the unavoidably intertextual ground of writing

Flowers of Evil Tu Fu the hum of a permanentlyCharles 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