First trade paperback edition
Condition: Very good plus, light dust shadow on covers, very light edge wear, else near fine. Softcover.
Publishing Info: City Lights, San Francisco, 1983
ISBN: 9780872861466
Edited by Christopher Isherwood
Edgar Allan Poe suggested that any man who dared write a book with complete frankness would produce a masterpiece. Baudelaire began such a book, My Heart Laid Bare, a passionately honest investigation of his secret thoughts and inclinations. That text, along with other fragments, literary notes, aphorisms, drafts of prose poems, and brilliant observations on politics, personalities, morals (along with thoughts we'd shudder at today), and fashions, makes up these Intimate Journals.
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Poetry Foundation overview of Baudelaire's life and work
Poets.org biography of Baudelaire
