{"product_id":"9781782278603","title":"Unnamed Pleasures: Essential Poems (by Charles Baudelaire)","description":"\u003ch4\u003eSeries: Pushkin Press Deluxe Classic\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Baudelaire is everything. The genius of Terry's translation makes that foundational, new and thrilling. This book will be my teacher and agitant for the rest of my reading life. I'm shaking with excitement that it's here. Every writer who values their debt to the provocateurs, wicked poets, radical experimentalists and rebels of Modernism, should have this book on their shelf.' Holly Pester\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003ci\u003eUnnamed Pleasures\u003c\/i\u003e is indeed a total pleasure. Philip Terry's Baudelaire is sensual, political, and feverishly brilliant. This intelligent and important new translation manages that difficult thing - to keep Baudelaire's infinitely suggestive symbols as open secrets, quivering with possibilities.' Clare Pollard\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The first seer, the king of poets, a true God' Arthur Rimbaud\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunning new translation of the vividly sensual, macabre verse of 19th-century Parisian poet Charles Baudelaire, in a beautiful Deluxe Classic edition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrench poet, essayist, art critic and translator Charles Baudelaire inaugurated a new era in world literature - indeed, he coined the term 'modernity'. This fresh translation of his best poetry, by eminent translator, poet, and novelist Philip Terry, lays bare the richness and the long afterlife of Baudelaire's verse, and brings out all the originality of his ideas. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eHere, in lushly visual and sonorous verse, we find themes that still preoccupy us today. Baudelaire captured life in the city like no one else, drawing a portrait of Paris as the ultimate glittering seductress - and also as a fragmented landscape peopled by isolated individuals. As much as an urban eyewitness, he was an incisive personal poet, vividly evoking the ebb and flow of desire: the joy of fulfilling it, the agony of feeling, and even worse, not feeling it. Terry's bold, contemporary translation style makes clear why Baudelaire, a century and a half after his death, is still the painter of modern life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globe. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated, annotated and introduced by Philip Terry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was born in Paris. Trained in law, he flouted his family's wishes that he pursue a steady career to become a writer. Baudelaire spent freely and drank copiously, becoming known as a dandy in artistic circles, but his writing also quickly gained him renown as an influential thinker and belletrist. His first poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Flowers of Evil\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1857, confirmed both sides of his reputation - it was instantly influential and highly praised, but also the subject of a notorious obscenity trial. Baudelaire worked across many genres, writing art criticism, poetry, essays, and translations, notably of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Always short of money, and increasingly subject to symptoms of syphilis, he embarked on an ill-fated lecture tour of Belgium, where he suffered a debilitating stroke in 1866, rendering him unable to speak for the final months of his life. His immense influence on French and English literature, already clear in his lifetime, has lived on since his death. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePhilip Terry was born in Belfast, and is a poet, translator, and a writer of fiction. He has translated the work of Georges Perec, Michèle Métail and Raymond Queneau, and is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003etapestry\u003c\/i\u003e, shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. His poetry and experimental translations include \u003ci\u003eOulipoems\u003c\/i\u003e,  \u003ci\u003eDante's Inferno\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDictator\u003c\/i\u003e, a version of the \u003ci\u003eEpic of Gilgamesh\u003c\/i\u003e in Globish, which refracts his experience of working with migrants in Sicily with Stories in Transit. \u003ci\u003eThe Penguin Book of Oulipo\u003c\/i\u003e, which he edited, was published in Penguin Modern Classics in 2020, and Carcanet published his edition of Jean-Luc Champerret's \u003ci\u003eThe Lascaux Notebooks\u003c\/i\u003e, the first ever anthology of Ice Age poetry, in April 2022. His version of \u003ci\u003eDante's Purgatorio\u003c\/i\u003e, relocated to Mersea Island in Essex, was published in October 2024 - 'A Dante like no other' (London Review Bookshop). \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pushkin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67895539269859,"sku":"9781782278603","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1701\/6275\/files\/9781782278603.jpg?v=1793637122","url":"https:\/\/www.harbourbookshop.pro\/products\/9781782278603","provider":"The Harbour Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}