Fleurs Du Mal T-Shirts
Description: Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist and art critic. His poems exhibit mastery in the handling of rhyme and rhythm, contain an exoticism inherited from Romantics, but are based on observations of real life.
Description: Paris, 1857. The publisher was tried for offenses against public morality. Six poems were ordered suppressed. Baudelaire had spent years finding beauty in what polite society agreed to ignore — decay, obsession, the city at night, the self at its worst. The title was the argument: evil is where the flowers grow. The book is still in print. The trial is a footnote.