My Heart Laid Bare

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

translated by Ariana Reines

mal-o-mar

Coeur de Lion is a love poem.    "To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive (by the limitless expansion of the ego, by emotive submersion) and impoverished (by the codes on which love diminishes and levels it).  {....}  To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other); to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not-- this is the beginning of writing."   -Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse. VIntage, 2002. Translation copyright Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc., 1978.

Coeur De Lion (French Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Reines, Ariana

Poetry

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