Hibberd, Jack/Baudelaire. Les Vin des Amants

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Les Vin des Amants
by Jack Hibberd/Baudelaire.

Gryphon Books, 1977.

Paperback. First Edition (limited to a 1000 copies).

Monoprints by David Fitts.

Le Parfum

Bookworm, have you ever inhaled

With intoxication and slow greed

The smell of opium in the church

Or the lingering musk of nymphets?

Jack Hibberd’s ‘versions’ of Baudelaire, with monographs by David Fitts, show the New Wave playwright in correspondence with the Decadent French poet. ‘They are my imaginative and poetic response to what I feel the poet is attempting. The Germans have a saying: “faithful translations are like boiled strawberries.”’ http://jackhibberd.com/

Condition: Spotting front cover (might be design flaw), but there are a couple of minor page marks. Otherwise very good.