Rhapsodies by Petrus Borel, trans. by John Gallas and Kurt Ganz Matthew Dickman poems that are funny

poems that are funny

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Orpheus and Tithonus appear at the beginning and end of this book

This new anthology is inspired by a passionate desire to celebrate our bodies in a fully realised way

Rhapsodies by Petrus Borel, trans. by John Gallas and Kurt Ganz Matthew Dickman poems that are funnyBorel was the sun,' said Theophile Gautier, 'who could resist him?' Indeed, who? A lycanthrope, necrophile, absurd revolutionary, Paris dandy with a scented beard, flamboyant sufferer: a man with no grave and no memorial. His once celebrated red mouth opened briefly 'like an exotic flower' to complain of injustice and bourgeois vulgarity; of his frustration in love and reputation; of poverty and blighted fate. Then he withered in the minor officialdom