Paradise Regained: Poem from the Source – by Léocadie Penquer

Léocadie Penquer grew up within the small Romanticist community in Brest, Brittany, and her work was known mainly from private performances. Urged by Lamartine, the liberal poet and politician, she published in the avant-garde Parnasse Contemporain anthology along with Gautier, Verlaine, & Mallarmé in 1871. She and her husband Auguste Penquer were both active in liberal activism and he was eventually elected mayor of Brest; they founded the city’s Museum of Fine Art.

This carefully-wrought poem presents an alternative reading of the ejection from Eden, in which Eve takes control and champions earthly, carnal love as an alternative to the vengeful God upon whom the exiled couple turn their backs.

Translated by Olchar E. Lindsann.

Forgotten Avant-Gardists TLP #10

3 pgs on folded letter. March. A.Da. 108 (2024 Anti-Vulgar)
Cover image by Olchar Lindsann.

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