Able Muse - charles baudelaire https://www.ablemuse.com/taxonomy/term/525/525? 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 Able Muse, Poetry, Prose & Art - Print Edition - Summer 2018 https://www.ablemuse.com/v25/index.html? <script type="text/javascript" src="/js/ggl-analytics-am.js"></script> <p> <link type="text/css" href="/sites/all/themes/zen/zenzine/front-page-rev.css" rel="stylesheet" /></p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v25/index.html?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v25/index.html?#comments Issue aaron poochigian art arthur rimbaud book reviews catullus charles baudelaire christopher childers essays fiction flight artwork george david clark interviews nonfiction number 25 photography poetry print edition roy bentley susan de sola Sat, 04 Aug 2018 22:26:17 +0000 Alex Pepple 1624 at https://www.ablemuse.com Exotic Perfume https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/poetry-translation/charles-baudelaire/exotic-perfume? <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&ldquo;Parfum Exotique&rdquo;</em></p> <p>When, with closed eyes, on a warm autumn night,<br /> I breathe in deep the fragrance of your breast,<br /> I see unrolling happy shorelines, blessed <br /> With dazzling fires of an unchanging light&mdash;</p> <p>An isle of indolence that nature supplies<br /> With unfamiliar trees and fruits of rare<br /> Savor; the men are lean and rugged there;<br /> The women shock one with their brazen eyes.</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/poetry-translation/charles-baudelaire/exotic-perfume?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/poetry-translation/charles-baudelaire/exotic-perfume?#comments Poetry Translation charles baudelaire exotic perfume french parfum exotique poem poetry translation ryan wilson translation v17 Thu, 19 Jun 2014 18:18:46 +0000 Alex Pepple 1178 at https://www.ablemuse.com Ryan Wilson https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/bio/ryan-wilson? <p>Ryan Wilson holds graduate degrees from The Johns Hopkins University and Boston University. Recent work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in a number of magazines, including <em>32 Poems, First Things, The Hopkins Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Measure, River Styx, and Sewanee Theological Review,</em> among others. Currently living with his wife in Baltimore, he is a doctoral candidate at The Catholic University of America.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/bio/ryan-wilson?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/bio/ryan-wilson?#comments Bios author bio charles baudelaire french lope de vega poem poetry poetry translation ryan wilson spanish translation v17 Thu, 19 Jun 2014 17:36:26 +0000 Alex Pepple 1175 at https://www.ablemuse.com Winter Bell https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/poetry-translation/charles-baudelaire/winter-bell? <p> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;—A variation on Baudelaire&rsquo;s <em>&ldquo;</em><em>La Cloche fêlée&rdquo;</em></p> <p>It&rsquo;s bittersweet on winter nights to listen<br> to a fire we&rsquo;re certain cannot last.<br> It twists and . . . <br /> . . . . . . . . . .</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/poetry-translation/charles-baudelaire/winter-bell?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/poetry-translation/charles-baudelaire/winter-bell?#comments Poetry Translation charles baudelaire french la cloche fêlée ned balbo poem poetry translation translation v17 winter bell Tue, 17 Jun 2014 00:37:34 +0000 Alex Pepple 1092 at https://www.ablemuse.com Don Juan in Hell https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/poetry-translation/charles-baudelaire/don-juan-in-hell? <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;—A variation on Baudelaire&rsquo;s <em>&ldquo;</em><em>Don Juan aux enfers&rdquo;</em></p> <p>Don Juan, it&rsquo;s time. The caverns fill with light—<br> It&rsquo;s always dim light through which Charon rows,<br> the quiet water urging you through night<br> that lasts, and . . . <br /> . . . . . . . . . .</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/poetry-translation/charles-baudelaire/don-juan-in-hell?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/poetry-translation/charles-baudelaire/don-juan-in-hell?#comments Poetry Translation charles baudelaire don juan aux enfers don juan in hell french ned balbo poem poetry translation translation v17 Tue, 17 Jun 2014 00:13:57 +0000 Alex Pepple 1091 at https://www.ablemuse.com The Dispossessed https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/poetry-translation/charles-baudelaire/the-dispossessed? <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash;A variation on Baudelaire&rsquo;s <em>&ldquo;La Vie ant&eacute;rieure&rdquo;</em></p> <p>I had it all. A mansion was my home&mdash;<br /> seaside, of course: you should have seen the . . . <br /> . . . . . . . . . .</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/poetry-translation/charles-baudelaire/the-dispossessed?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/poetry-translation/charles-baudelaire/the-dispossessed?#comments Poetry Translation charles baudelaire french la vie antérieure ned balbo poem poetry translation the dispossessed translation v17 Mon, 16 Jun 2014 23:42:12 +0000 Alex Pepple 1090 at https://www.ablemuse.com Charles Baudelaire https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/bio/charles-baudelaire? <p>Charles Baudelaire (1821 &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/v17/bio/charles-baudelaire?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/bio/charles-baudelaire?#comments Bios author bio charles baudelaire french ned balbo poem poems poetry poetry translation ryan wilson translation v17 Mon, 16 Jun 2014 23:05:26 +0000 Alex Pepple 1089 at https://www.ablemuse.com