Inventory day for #Studio42Books which means time for audiobooks. We just found out this morning that we'll be vending at #Penguicon next month, which means we need to spend some time restocking a bunch of our smaller items. I'll probably be making nothing but buttons and magnets for the next few weeks. Weeeee 🤪
Well, folx, this volume of #poetry keeps getting darker and weirder...
This book was translated from French to English. Truly a good translator is imparative especially with poems as even one word can change the whole meaning. There were a few lines that I found compellingly but over all it feels weak and poorly done. So I am going to DNF this edition from the library and I have bought an edition with higher ratings on the translation part. Hope the one in the mail is better!
Rain, sleet and lightning... perfect night for some dark poems...
"Though I have sung the mad pleasures of wine and opium..." ohhhhh myyyyyy sir!
"One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk." - Charles Baudelaire
"If there is any glory in not being understood, or in being only very slightly so, I may without boasting say that with this little book I have at a single stroke both won and deserved that glory."
Flowers of Evil (Revised) | 
