Lycanthropy: Shreds Torn from “Rhapsodies”, Expanded & Revised 2nd Edition –– by Petrus Borel

Translated by Olchar E. Lindsann, Raymond E. Andre III, & W.J. Robertson.
Edited w/bio-critical Introduction by Olchar E. Lindsann
Cover image by Joseph Bouchardy

47 pp. w/cardstock cover.

Petrus Borel (1809-1859) played a seminal role in the founding of the avant-garde as a writer, theorist, organiser and public provocateur. Though acknowledged as an important influence by Baudelaire, Verlaine, Lautréamont, Tzara, and Breton, his work is scarcely known even French, let alone in English. This anthology includes ten poems from Borel’s 1832 collection Rhapsodies, with extensive translators notes unfolding Borel’s many dense network of references to the Romanticist avant-garde community and its ideological and historical contexts; Borel’s Preface to the book, arguably the most influential manifesto of avant-garde Romanticism, heavily annotated; a short critical biography of Borel by Olchar Lindsann; and a selected bibliography of works by or about Borel in English.

This new edition has been expanded to twice the number of poems as the 2014 release and thoroughly revised, including a brand-new translation of the original groundbreaking preface.

48 pgs. on folded Letter-size paper. Dec. A.Da. 106 (2022)
$4.00 + 3.50 s/h or trade.