Daisy Fried reads from The Year the City Emptied, translations and adaptions from Les Fleurs du Mal
During the pandemic, while taking care of her dying husband, quarantined from friends, and without much help from Medicaid, one day in the spring of 2020, Daisy Fried read a translation of Baudelaire’s “Paysage” by John Ashbery, thought to herself, “I can do better than that,” and began to work on her own “Landscape.” Shut…