Description: Examines Baudelaire's multifaceted use of natural, domestic, urban, and esthetic objects in his verse and prose poetry and the ways his poems reconfigure subject-object relations.
Brief description: Joseph Acquistois Professor of French at the University of Vermont, USA. His books include Reading Baudelaire with Adorno: Subjectivity, Dissonance, Transcendence (Bloomsbury 2023), Proust, Music, and Meaning: Theories and Practices of Listening in the Recherche(2017), and The Fall Out of Redemption: Writing and Thinking Beyond Salvation in Baudelaire, Cioran, Fondane, Agamben, and Nancy(Bloomsbury 2015).
Review Quotes: "In probing how Baudelaire's poetry situates us in a field of relations that are infinitely more complex, nuanced, and impactful than that of subject-object dichotomy, Acquisto's incisive study brings to light poetry's transformative power that has us ceaselessly become with the world." --Claire Lyu, Associate Professor of French, University of Virginia, USA