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In Set Thy Love in Order Stephen Romer's poetry is as pressing and urgent as ever. The spirit, still unappeased and peregrine, searches for places of refuge, mostly from itself, and finds them, temporarily, in love, in art and in mourning.

"He had become the dandy of the unpredictable."
A quest for new sensations--and an avowed desire to shock--possessed the Decadent writers of fin-de-siecle Paris. Indeed, the years 1880-1900 saw an extraordinary, hothouse flowering of talent, that produced some of the most exotic, stylized, and cerebral literature in the French language. Death and Eros haunt these pages, and a polymorphous perversity by turns hilarious and horrifying. Their stories teem with addicts, maniacs, and murderers as they strive to outdo each other.
This marvelous selection by Stephen Romer-whose translations...