SELECTED POEMS FROM LES FLEURS DU MAL

Best known for his translations of La Fontaine and Feydeau, Shapiro translates over 70 poems from the complete Flowers of Evil, the masterwork of the 19th-century dark poet, whose influence pervades subsequent Western poetry, and whose structured verse Shapiro (unlike so many previous translators of Baudelaire) smartly re-creates in these formal renderings, complete with the original French on the opposite page.