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Article: Poetry as a 'disordering of the senses'.(INTERVIEW)(Interview)
- Article from:
- The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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BACK IN 1953, noted scholar Wallace Fowlie observed of Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) that "Editions of his work multiply each year. More than 500 books about him have been written in all languages." In the intervening years, books on the visionary teenage poet have continued to arrive. There was also a film version of Rimbaud's affair with Verlaine, Total Eclipse, based on Christopher Hampton's play and starring a pre-Titanic Leonardo DiCaprio. In a smartly concise new biography, Edmund White takes on the legendary French poet, traveling the familiar byways of earlier investigations but with a queer perspective. He also offers his own astute translations of Rimbaud's iconic ...
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... ... history, the stormy menage of Rimbaud-Verlaine. So who better to write ... daring poet of the day, Paul Verlaine, in Paris. Rimbaud's covering letter contained ... sent him a train ticket. Rimbaud was 16. Verlaine was 26. Verlaine was homely ...
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