Flowers of Evil

Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) is most famous for his groundbreaking collection of verse The Flowers of Evil, but his essays, translations, and prose poems have been equally influential. Marthiel Mathews was an American poet, translator of French poetry, and academic. Jackson Mathews was an American scholar, poet, and translator of French poetry. Christopher Mattison has translated and edited numerous works from Russian and Chinese to English. In 2010 he moved to Hong Kong where he is the Director of the Sustainability of Memory and Artifacts (SOMA) Project at City University of Hong Kong.

"He possessed, as it were, a profound intuition of the obstinate, amorphous contingency which is life..."