Paris Spleen: little poems in prose

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paris spleen A Windmill Near Calvary The Garden of Effort Windfall Losses The Space of Half an Hour The Ruins of Providence A Ceremony Somewhere Else Hegel’s Family The Opposite of Letting the Mind Wander Light While There Is Light The Locality Principle The Silhouette of the Bridge Analogies of Escape Well Well Reality (with Rosmarie Waldrop) Haunt Semiramis If I Remember The House Seen from Nowhere Ceci n’est pas Keith, ceci n’est pas Rosmarie (with Rosmarie Waldrop) Songs from the Decline of the West The Real Subject Transcendental Studies Several Gravities translations Reversal by Claude Royet-Journoud The Notion of Obstacle by Claude Royet-Journoud If There Were Anywhere But Desert: Selected Poems of Edmond Jabès Etat by Anne-Marie Albiach Ralentir Travaux by André Breton, Paul Eluard, and René Char Boudica by Paol Keineg Objects Contain the Infinite by Claude Royet-Journoud Elegies by Jean Grosjean Click-Rose by Dominique Fourcade Sarx by Pascal Quignard Heart Into Soil by Xue Di (with Wang Ping, et al.) Prose Poems [] by Pierre Reverdy An Ordinary Day by Xue Di (with Wang Ping, et al.) Mental Ground by Esther Tellermann Close Quote by Marie Borel Another Kind of Tenderness by Xue Di (with Wang Ping, et al.) The Form of a City Changes Faster, Alas, than the Human Heart by Jacques Roubaud (with Rosmarie Waldrop) An Earth of Time by Jean Grosjean Zone by Xue Di (with Waverly, Wang Ping, et al.) The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire Theory of Prepositions by Claude Royet-Journoud Figured Image by Anne-Marie Albiach also by keith waldrop parisspleen charles baudelaire little poems in prose translated by keith waldrop Wesleyan University Press Middletown, Connecticut Published by wesleyan university press Middletown, CT 06459 www.wesleyan.edu/wespress Translation, preface, and notes© 2009 by Keith Waldrop All rights reserved Printed in U.S.A. 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Baudelaire, Charles, 1821–1867. [Spleen de Paris. English] Paris spleen: little poems in prose / Charles Baudelaire; translated by Keith Waldrop. p. cm. isbn 978-0-8195-6909-7 (cloth: alk. paper) 1. Paris (France)—Poetry. 2. Prose poems, French— Translations into English. I. Waldrop, Keith. II. Title. pq2191.p4e5 2009 841'.8—dc22 2008054948 Wesleyan University Press is a member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. ...