Baudelaire Selected Poems Author:Charles Baudelaire, Laurence Lerner, translator Barnes & Noble Poetry Library Series — Selected poems and a chronology of the life and times of Charles Baudelaire. — Listen! They must be words, drifting between — These living pillars: elusive, never simple. — --from "Correspondences" — Against the normal, the healthy, and the rational, the imagination of poet Charles Baudelaire plunged into the "F... more »lowers of Evil," offering extreme images and work devoted to exploring such themes as drugs, sex, and art. In addition to the haunting and highly individual prose poems called "Spleen," this volume offers masterpieces such as "To the Reader," "Albatross," "Invitation to the Voyage," and "The Cracked Bell."« less