Love, Modernity, and the Internet Just who, or what, is le chien lunatique?

The poet driven out of his mind when faced with the catastrophe of the modern world? The modern world turned into a rabid canine when faced with the hopelessly idealistic poet? Or when it looks in the mirror and sees what it has become?

These poems - profound yet accessible, contemporary yet classical, eloquent and dynamic even when apparently most despairing - distill one poet's somewhat jaundiced look at modernity, from the Renaissance and the philosophical revolutions of the seventeenth century to...