Rhapsodies by Petrus Borel, trans. by John Gallas and Kurt Ganz Geraldine Clarkson April is the Cruellest Month

April is the Cruellest Month

It is a daring and distinguished work from one of Ireland’s leading poets

Robert Crawford has long been a passionate and articulate ambassador for his country and its culture

the cartoonish and everything in between with a mindful sensibility

Gizzi enlists the American vernacular in a magical and complex music

Rhapsodies by Petrus Borel, trans. by John Gallas and Kurt Ganz Geraldine Clarkson April is the Cruellest MonthBorel was the sun,' said Theophile Gautier, 'who could resist him?' Indeed, who? A lycanthrope, necrophile, absurd revolutionary, Paris dandy with a scented beard, flamboyant sufferer: a man with no grave and no memorial. His once celebrated red mouth opened briefly 'like an exotic flower' to complain of injustice and bourgeois vulgarity; of his frustration in love and reputation; of poverty and blighted fate. Then he withered in the minor officialdom