![]() ![]() A “mutilated” version of the book, as Baudelaire referred to it, was published along with new work in 1861 and posthumously in 1868. ![]() The poems resurfaced once again in Les Épaves: a chapbook-like text containing 23 pieces, published separately in Brussels in 1866. In August of 1857, less than two months after Charles Baudelaire published Les Fleurs du Mal, a French court banned six poems from its contents: “Lesbos,” “Femmes damnés,” “Le Léthé,” “À celle qui est trop gaie,” “Les Bijoux,” and “Les Métamorphoses du Vampire.” The judges argued that these pieces would “necessarily lead to the excitement of the senses by a crude realism offensive to public decency.” In other words, they were too sexy. That the wind swings to and fro on a winter night. Which of themselves gave forth the cry of a weather-cock There quivered confusedly a heap of old bones, ![]() Who seemed to have laid in a store of blood, Than a wine-skin with gluey sides, all full of pus!įrozen with terror, I closed both my eyes,Īnd when I opened them to the bright light,Īt my side, instead of the robust manikin To give back an amorous kiss, I saw no more ![]() When she had sucked out all the marrow from my bones 2023 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony. ![]()
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