Rimbaud
The Young Rimbaud It probably sounds deathly esoteric, but I’ve been reading I promise to be good, The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud. A French poet, Rimbaud (1851-1891), at the age of twenty-one, abandoned...
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I have one poem memorized, W.B. Yeats’s The Second Coming. I thank Joan Didion for this singular accomplishment. Her book, Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) brought the poem directly to my attention....
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Jim Harrison’s new book. In his new book, The River Swimmer, Jim Harrison says the most succinct and astonishing thing: “How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.” This...
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