Able Muse - the enemy https://www.ablemuse.com/taxonomy/term/2390/2390? en The Enemy https://www.ablemuse.com/v25/poetry-translation/charles-baudelaire/the-enemy? <p>My youth was just rainstorms and shadows, shot<br /> Through here and there by sunlight&rsquo;s dazzling rays;<br /> Thunder and rain have so laid waste the plot,<br /> My garden boasts few ruddy fruits these days.</p> <p>Now I&rsquo;ve come to the autumn of the mind,<br /> And must work with the rake and spade to save<br /> The ruined muck those showers left behind,<br /> Where water digs troughs deep as any grave.</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v25/poetry-translation/charles-baudelaire/the-enemy?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v25/poetry-translation/charles-baudelaire/the-enemy?#comments Poetry Translation author charles baudelaire french l&#039;ennemi poem poems poetry poetry translation ryan wilson the enemy translation v25 Tue, 07 Aug 2018 18:45:04 +0000 Alex Pepple 1666 at https://www.ablemuse.com Ryan Wilson https://www.ablemuse.com/v25/bio/ryan-wilson? <p>Ryan Wilson is the editor of <em>Literary Matters</em> and the author of <em>The Stranger World</em> (Measure Press, 2017), winner of the Donald Justice Prize. Recent work has appeared or will appear in <em>Birmingham Poetry Review, Five Points,</em> the <em>Hopkins Review,</em> the <em>New Criterion,</em> the <em>Sewanee Review,</em> the <em>Yale Review, </em>and <em>The Best American Poetry 2018.</em> He teaches at the Catholic University of America, and he lives with his wife north of Baltimore. </p> <p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v25/bio/ryan-wilson?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v25/bio/ryan-wilson?#comments Bios able muse arthur rimbaud author bio catullus catullus iii charles baudelaire gaius valerius catullus my bohemia poetry poetry translation ryan wilson the enemy v25 Mon, 06 Aug 2018 20:32:06 +0000 Alex Pepple 1641 at https://www.ablemuse.com Charles Baudelaire https://www.ablemuse.com/v25/bio/charles-baudelaire? <p>Charles Baudelaire (1821&nbsp;&ndash; 1897) holds the most wide-ranging influence of the French Symbolist poets. A respected reviewer and critic whose translations of Edgar Allan Poe were much admired in his time, he died young, at only forty-six, but left behind a legacy of work at the center of which stands his masterpiece, the poems of <em>Les Fleurs du mal,</em> first published in 1857 to shock and acclaim.<p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v25/bio/charles-baudelaire?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v25/bio/charles-baudelaire?#comments Bios author bio charles baudelaire french l&#039;ennemi poem poems poetry poetry translation ryan wilson the enemy translation v25 Mon, 06 Aug 2018 17:31:37 +0000 Alex Pepple 1633 at https://www.ablemuse.com