Le Vin des Amants by Jack Hibberd & Baudelaire

Brooklyn. Gryphon Books. 1977. Edition 320 of 600. Signed. Hardcover clothbound w. pictorial art slipcase. Book Condition: Fine, minor shelf wear. 60pp. (ill. in color & b/w). Jack Hibberd's first volume of poetry (1977), and consists of ‘versions’ of poems by Baudelaire. "They are my imaginative and poetic response to what I feel the poet is attempting. The Germans have a saying: ‘faithful translations are like boiled strawberries’." Also containing eight mono prints by David Fitts, inspired by a reading of Baudelaire's aphoristic journals: Fusees and Mon Coeur Mis a Nu.