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...
by phillipw | Sep 26, 2019 | Ho
φυσικά [Of Course] “Homosexuality in its highest sense is founded on intellectualism. It represents fundamentally an aesthetic conception of love. . .” ~ Wallace Fowlie, 1946 As rarefied as nearly empty space, The void between the planets and the stars, The...
by phillipw | Sep 26, 2019 | LO, PO, RI, VE
Even? “A relationship between two poets of the same sex, even if there is a physical basis, may provide an intensive intellectual companionship and stimulation.” ~ Wallace Fowlie, 1946 When poetry explodes in friction from Deep similarities, expect the best And...
