Edmund White

Rimbaud

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Poet and prodigy Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) died young but his extraordinary poetry continues to influence and inspire — fans include Dylan, Jim Morrison, Patti Smith. His long poem Un Saison en Enferand his collection Illuminations are central to the modern canon. Having sworn off writing at the age of twenty-one, Rimbaud drifted around the world from scheme to scheme, ultimately dying from an infection contracted while gun-running in Africa. He was thirty-seven.
Distinguished biographer, novelist, and memoirist Edmund White brilliantly explores the young poet's relationships with his family and his teachers, as well as his notorious affair with the older and more established poet Paul Verlaine. He reveals the longing for a utopian life of the future and the sexual taboos that haunt Rimbaud's works, offering incisive interpretations of the poems and his own artful translations to bring us closer to this great and mercurial poet.
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176 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2009
Publication year
2009
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  • Tamarahas quoted6 years ago
    but that love between the same sex, even if the persons involved are quite ordinary, because of the very similarity of their natures and the absence of a presupposed difference, is creative and artistic.
  • Tamarahas quoted6 years ago
    Homosexuality, in its highest sense, is founded on intellectualism.
  • Николай Зубовhas quoted7 years ago
    Like many writers of his day (including Marx somewhat earlier), Rimbaud took out a "reader's ticket" at the British Museum.
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