To the Editors: In lieu of a rebuttal, I would like to submit the following poem in response to Ange Mlinko’s review of my Baudelaire translations [“His Nemesis Was Stupidity,” NYR, April 7]: THE CONSOLATION OF BITTERNESS When I know well the cards I’ve got will lose,and somebody I’ve hated, taking holdof all the chips, […]
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