Before Wisdom - The Early Poems - Paul Verlaine Massimo Mattioli and DMT) and on the

and DMT) and on the “poison path” of substances such as belladonna

and renaming itself after the nationwide dance craze it had helped to originate: the Empire Roller Disco was born

Born to working-class parents in a small town in Italy

this edition beautifully showcases the distinctive surrealist vision of one of the twentieth century's most gifted and influential writers

the catalogue and various responding articles open up an expanded view of the Surrealist enterprise and of the French art world of the late 1920s through the 1940s

Before Wisdom - The Early Poems - Paul Verlaine Massimo Mattioli and DMT) and on theBefore Wisdom The Early Poems Paul Verlaine, translated by Keith Waldrop & K. A. Hays ISBN 9781954218123 120 page paperback published in 2023 by World Poetry Books *** "These remarkable versions of Verlaines early work offer a much welcome window into the range of his art: his erotic fixations, his chimeras, his alternating exaltation and despair, and, of course, his lyricism." Michael Palmer A selection from the legendary French poet Paul Verlaines