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Susanna Breathes Air Into Baudelaire's 'Invitation To The Voyage'

The Norwegian artist Susanna, in addition to her originals, is a master interpreter of song. Here she takes on a poem suffused with a sensuousness that shouts through the ages.
Susanna's <em>Go Dig My Grave</em> comes out Feb. 9.

Charles Baudelaire's "L'invitation au voyage" was originally published in in 1857, a book accused of being (roughly, "an insult to good manners" or "morality"). The poem is laden with a sensuousness that to cellist Julia Kent's .

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