Magistrate's Douche Ascendant: Three Splenetic Sonnets – by Laurent Tailhade

The Anarchist writer Laurent Tailhade was among the most radical and intransigeant leftists in the Symbolist movement, most famous for his reputed comment on anarchist bombings: “What matter the victims, should the gesture be beautiful?”. When he lost his own eye in an anarchist bombing of a restaurant shortly afterward (in which his fellow Symbolist Félix Fenéon was implicated) he stood by this, taking the stand for the defense of the bombers. His poetry was equally uncompromising, both in its linguistic inventiveness and complexity, and in its caustic, withering, sarcastic social rage, as the three sonnets translated here attest.

Translated & Annotated by Olchar E. Lindsann.

Forgotten Avant-Gardists TLP #11-12

6 pgs on folded letter. July. A.Da. 108 (2024 Anti-Vulgar)
Cover image by Traviès.

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