Jed Grant itibaren Mesal, Jharkhand , India

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2019-09-09 10:40

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I adore this book. Yes, adore. Twenty Prose Poems (or, if you must, Petits Poemes en Prose) is a 70-some page book, and half of it is the French originals. When a friend passed it on to me more than a month ago, I thought I'd devour the thing in a day or two. But it turned out that my usually voracious appetite for reading only wanted one, maybe two prose poems a day. And not because they are particularly dense, or difficult, or dull--in fact, just the opposite. I enjoyed each one of these strange little genre-hybrids so much that I didn't want to dilute the experience by gulping it too fast. I wanted every bite. In a letter, Baudelaire wrote that he was aiming for nothing less than "the miracle of poetic prose, musical but with neither meter nor rhyme, supple enough and rugged enough to lend itself to the lyrical movements of the soul, to the undulations of reverie, to the jolts and spasms of conscience?" Bold, Mr. Baudelaire, very bold. And accurate. Such ambition did nothing to stifle his a sense of humor--evident just from his titles, which range from "Get Drunk!" to "The Soup and the Clouds" to "Let's Beat Up the Poor." Baudelaire's got a love of wordplay and a taste for epiphany. The doubleness manifested in his very genre--prose poem--finds constant textual echoes, from his scathing remarks on hypocrisy to his sight for the strange oppositions alive in Paris in the mid-nineteenth century. I was particularly struck by the image at the end of "The Double Room" (natch): "Yes! Time rules now; he has returned his brutal dictatorship. He pushes me, as though I were an ox, with his two-pronged goad: 'Move on there, beast! Sweat, you slave! Live, convict, live!'" It seems that he had originally intended to write a set of one hundred prose poems, but these twenty were written over a long span of time, and while some were published during his lifetime, it wasn't until two years after his death that they were collected. But thank god for that.

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