A Poetics of Incompletion: Baudelaire’s Late Fragments

“What the mind creates is more alive than matter” – Charles Baudelaire, Flares This isolated phrase, the third entry in Charles Baudelaire’s aphoristic, incomplete collection Flares, takes on a new meaning in the context of a reader’s approach to this new translation of and introduction to Baudelaire’s late work undertaken by Richard Sieburth and forthcoming from Yale […]

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“What the mind creates is more alive than matter” – Charles Baudelaire, Flares This isolated phrase, the third entry in Charles Baudelaire’s aphoristic, incomplete collection Flares, takes on a new meaning in the context of a reader’s approach to this new translation of and introduction to Baudelaire’s late work undertaken by Richard Sieburth and forthcoming from Yale