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  The Flowers of Evil

  Charles Baudelaire

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  Loneliness, temptation, the fragility of man in a soulless new age . . . The controversial, banned masterpiece from the nineteenth-century French poet.   Sparking scandal in France, declared “an outrage to public morals” and “an offense to religious morals” by the Ministry of the Interior, The Flowers of Evil plunged Charles Baudelaire into a controversy that his public image never quite overcame. Nevertheless, the collection has since been lauded as a landmark in literary history and its writer extolled as the first modern poet.   With themes of love, world-weariness, beauty, and death, The Flowers of Evil juxtaposes the sublime with the commonplace. In the section titled “Parisian Scenes” are some of Baudelaire’s greatest poems—“The Swan,” “The Little Old Women,” and “The Seven Old Men”—which give readers an unsentimental view of the City of Light and of a bleak urban existence. As the Wall Street Journal proclaimed, “There is a sense in these angry, eructating late fragments of a man fully releasing himself to what he called ‘the joy of downward descent.’ And where Baudelaire went, modernity tended to follow.”  “The essence of a genius.” —The Guardian  “The profound originality of Charles Baudelaire is to represent powerfully and essentially modern man.” —Paul Verlaine

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  Cora Christensen

  Tanner Howsden

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  Ten years ago, Cora Christensen openly embraced her identity as a trans woman. Her father did not take it well. He burned her bras, refused to acknowledge her gender, and called her a pervert before exiling her from his home. 
  Following his untimely passing, she has reluctantly returned to put his affairs in order. But after receiving a threatening call addressed to her deadname, she finds herself in the middle of a nightmare facing a crazed gunman, a disappearing child, and a house that aims to gaslight her at every turn. 
  Beyond the nightmare lies a simple truth: every choice we make changes our lives and the lives of those around us, including the choices we don't make.

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  Paradise

  Alighieri Dante

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  Dante Alighieri’s Paradise, the final part of The Divine Comedy, is a sublime journey through the celestial spheres of Heaven, guided by the idealized Beatrice, symbolizing divine love and theology. As Dante ascends through the nine heavens—Moon to the Empyrean—he encounters blessed souls, explores virtues, and contemplates divine mysteries, free will, and the nature of God. The poem culminates in a transcendent vision of the Holy Trinity, where human reason surrenders to divine grace. Blending poetic beauty, medieval cosmology, and profound spirituality, Paradise celebrates the soul’s ultimate fulfillment in God’s eternal light, offering a powerful vision of love, order, and salvation.

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  Embracing the Inner Child -...

  Tatjana Markovic

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  In Embracing the Inner Child: Nurturing the Magic Within, Tatjana Markovic invites readers to reconnect with their inner child through a collection of heartfelt poems.Inspired by the innocence and wisdom of children and the gentle presence of giraffes, this poetic journey encourages readers to rediscover the magic, joy, and creativity that live within us all.With each poem, Tatjana guides us to approach life with tenderness, wonder, and love, reminding us of the transformative power of embracing our true selves.

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  Trace Evidence

  Charif Shanahan

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  A Chicago Review of Books Most Anticipated Chicago Book of 2023 
   
   
   
  "A truly magical achievement." —Ocean Vuong 
   
   
   
  In Trace Evidence, the urgent follow-up to his award-winning debut Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing, Charif Shanahan continues his piercing meditations on the intricacies of mixed-race identity, queer desire, time, mortality, and the legacies of anti-Blackness in the US and abroad. At the collection's center sits "On the Overnight from Agadir," a poem that chronicles Shanahan's survival of a devastating bus accident in Morocco, his mother's birth country, and ruminates on home, belonging, and the mysteries of fate. With rich lyricism, power, and tenderness, Trace Evidence centers the racial periphery and excavates the vestiges of our violent colonial past in the most intimate aspects of our lives. In a language yoked equally to the physical and metaphysical worlds, the poet articulates the need we all share for real intimacy and connection, and proves, time and again, that the true cost of our separateness is the love that our survival requires.

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  Great African American Literary...

  Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps,...

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  Hear rare recordings from five of the most-respected African American poets reading their own works: Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers; Arna Bontemps, Nocturne at Bethesda; Countee Cullen, Heritage; Gwendolyn Brooks, The Vacant Lot; and Sonia Sanchez, Black Magic. . 
  ©2009 Rick Sheridan (P)2009 Rick Sheridan

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