{"product_id":"flowers-of-bitumen-zmile-goudeau-9781735477664","title":"Flowers of Bitumen: Little Parisian Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFlowers of Bitumen\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eFleurs du Bitume\u003c\/em\u003e in French) is the first volume of poetry, published in 1878, by Émile Goudeau, who is best known as the founder the Hydropaths Club, a widely-successful literary club in Paris from 1878-1880, and subsequently as the influential editor-in-chief of the world-famous \u003cem\u003eChat Noir\u003c\/em\u003e journal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLéon Bloy, his cousin, says this of him: he \"is the lover, at first happy and successively distraught with each passing minute of his own existence, which makes him, at thirty-four years old, madly adored by fifteen million mistresses. When... \u003cem\u003eFlowers of Bitumen\u003c\/em\u003e [first appeared], I didnʼt understand anything in it... I noticed nothing at all of the extreme nascent superiority of that poetʼs rough outline that was teased out of his marble like Michelangeloʼs unfinished Slave. I called him Mohammad-Goudeau and I made him enter into Byzantium. I cried plaintively that that was decidedly the end of ends, and that the bitumen was going to gobble up the literary Pentapolis of the Occident. That bitumen has become the asphalt of Glory and we are certain to have a great poet hiding amongst us in the nineteenth century....\" (\"The Fifteenth Child of Niobe,\" \u003cem\u003eChat Noir \u003c\/em\u003ejournal, November 3, 1883).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Émile Goudeau\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1735477664\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781735477664\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sunny Lou Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/06\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d","brand":"Émile Goudeau","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48519248609535,"sku":"9781735477664","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_643d33a2-a865-4c3f-8223-44c0e54fc6ed.jpg?v=1778737116","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/flowers-of-bitumen-zmile-goudeau-9781735477664","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}