Cellulely

Many twenty-first century readers and appreciators of French author Paul Verlaine and his poetry will be surprised and delighted to first learn about the discovery in December 2004 of a lost manuscript by Paul Verlaine Cellulairement never published in any language before 2013. Cellulely is the first known English translation to come out by Richard Robinson.Cellulely is all the more striking and full of wonderment given the circumstances under which the poems in question were written (prison religious conversion) and the notorious events leading up to those circumstances (Rimbaud fog of absinthe pistol). Famous events and turning points in the life of the poet.Readers of Cellulely will also be interested to know that these are some of the same poems that are referred to on several occasions in Verlaineʼs autobiographical work My Prisons also available in English translation by Sunny Lou Publishing.Lady mouse scampers Black in the grey of evening Lady mouse scampersGrey in the black of night.One sounds the bell Sleep good prisoners!One sounds the bell: You must go to sleep.