Pain

By Christopher Reiner

Poetry. In PAIN, writer, editor and filmmaker Christopher Reiner offers a contemporary version of Charles Baudelaire's Paris Spleen, retaining all the subtlety, perverse charm, and withering social commentary of the original -- and even managing to sneak in the angels and devils that were his forerunner's specialty. Christopher Reiner's stories or prose poems -- I'm not sure how to classify them -- are subtle and psychologically astute, fascinating. They draw you in with their apparent simplicity, but it is into a conundrum, a riddle always just beyond your understanding. They leave you wanting more -- not more from them but more like them -- Rae Armantrout.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 188071325X
• ISBN13: 9781880713259
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Avec Books
• Length: 88 Pages