The Butterfly of the Soul
Le papillon de l'âme, a photo by reneevivien on Flickr.
This is a recent reissue (in French) of some intimate poems written around 1900 by the famed French lesbian Renee Vivien. As you lovely readers will probably recall, I did several posts about the amazing woman, and her current self in Paris.
I recently wrote her, and got back a pair of short letters, one gently chiding me for saying her soul-self has a short life. "I'm still living..." The other letter was about editing more works by the tres-sentimental Mlle Vivien.