A Small Apocalypse
Writing here today, in this city, on this street, in this dark apartment, is an irrational act of stubbornness, an old man’s pastime.
Loose Pages
Decadence
Essays
Baudelaire and the Prose Poem
Baudelaire, creator of the prose poem, transformed the modern city into a subjective and metaphysical language. His «flâneur» gaze captured «spleen» and elevated it to art, anticipating decadence and the avant-garde.