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King of a Rainy Country by Matthew Sweeney PBS autumn recommendations trauma and loveMatthew Sweeney wrote this set of 50 prose poems in response to Baudelaire's posthumously published collection of prose poems (or petits pomes en prose, as he called them). Modelling his pieces as closely as possible on Baudelaire's, Sweeney has produced a sequence that is wide ranging in both subject and mood there are stories, parables, meditations, diatribes that are, by turns, quirky, reflective, ascerbic and funny the overall effect of which is