by phillipw | Sep 26, 2019 | AR, LO, PA, VE
HMS Implacable “Because you loved me as it had to be.” ~ Paul Verlaine in “To Arthur Rimbaud” We cherish thoughts of hearts and fate combined. We love the grand idea that lust is out Of our control like earthquakes. Disinclined To judge...
by phillipw | Sep 26, 2019 | AR, LO, RI, VE
Salvation and Damnation for a Flimsy Vampire “Because you loved me as it had to be.” ~ Paul Verlaine in “To Arthur Rimbaud” We love the thought of love and fate combined. We love the grand idea that lust is out Of our control, like stormy waters mined By Nazis. Maybe...
by phillipw | Sep 26, 2019 | AR, RI
Smooth-cheeked Hooligan In the Fall of 1879, Rimbaud failed again; feverish, he returned to Roche. Delahaye, who went to see him, reported: “First I only recognised his so extraordinarily beautiful eyes – with a light blue iris surrounded by a darker ring...
by phillipw | Sep 26, 2019 | AR, RI, TE
Under the Sign of the Scorpion A teacher in Rimbaud’s third year of school, M. Pérette, remarked, “Intelligent, as much as you want, but he has eyes and a smile that I do not like. He will come to a bad end. In any case, nothing banal will germinate in that...
by phillipw | Sep 26, 2019 | RI
The Mystery about Why Rimbaud Abandoned Poetry Was Explained from the Start “Prophetically, Rimbaud was born in his parents’ apartment above a bookshop.” ~ Edmund White Huh? What exactly did that prophesy? That he would run a bookshop or would own One? Keep...
