Rhapsodies by Petrus Borel, trans. by John Gallas and Kurt Ganz Matthew Dickman whose members included George Grosz

whose members included George Grosz and Käthe Kollwitz)

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Deborah Alma proves that poems really can be the perfect pick-me-ups for the soul

rented by her parents

Rhapsodies by Petrus Borel, trans. by John Gallas and Kurt Ganz Matthew Dickman whose members included George GroszBorel was the sun,' said Theophile Gautier, 'who could resist him?' Indeed, who? A lycanthrope, necrophile, absurd revolutionary, Paris dandy with a scented beard, flamboyant sufferer: a man with no grave and no memorial. His once celebrated red mouth opened briefly 'like an exotic flower' to complain of injustice and bourgeois vulgarity; of his frustration in love and reputation; of poverty and blighted fate. Then he withered in the minor officialdom