Selected Poems from ‘Les Fleurs du Mal’The poems of The Flowers of Evil were written in Paris at a time of revolution and accelerating change the beginning of mass culture, the rise of consumerism and the middle class, the radical redevelopment of the city by Haussmann and they provide many parallels with the malaise and uncertainties of contemporary capitalist societies. Here we find poems about love (and love hate), birds and beasts, Paris scenes and street people; about spiritual

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this is her second English-language collection

both from Lebanon

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