Duncan Fallowell

Pondering the flowers

The markets and flower shops of Paris inspire reflections on life, lyric poetry and human endurance that are both portentous and trite

issue 08 September 2018

  • Orphic Paris

    Henri Cole

    NYRB, pp. 176

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