Word: rimbaud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THERE'S STILL some good music on Wave-"Frederick," an ode to Rimbaud set to a tune suspiciously like Smith's only hit, "Because The Night;" "Dancing Barefoot," in which she sings with more precision than she has yet managed; and "Broken Flag," a sweeping anthem to her curious idea of America. But even these tracks partake of the torpor that fills the rest of the record. During her last tour, Smith padded sheepishly around the stage and did her best to play cute. The music on Wave acts identically, and neither escapes with a shred of credibility...
...first appeared with that worn leather, her straggly, filthy looks could not be avoided. This the woman who thinks that orgasm is the highest state of consciousness, who roots her angst in Burroughs, Rimbaud, Hendrix, Morrison, the Bible--symbolists all. Patti Smith has used the symbols of our time exceedingly well, just as Dylan and Springsteen did before her, towards somewhat different ends. Avoiding the swastika, she has flaunted her hair, her leather, her boots, her sickliness, her chains, her sex...powerful symbols which horrified Rotarians and changed rock'n'roll...
...angelheaded hipsters and motorcycles, exchanging organic mescaline for acid; weeping, laughing and drawing strange art in the sand with sticks. They wrote some songs together, and Morrison experimented with the poetry he started writing when he was a film major at UCLA. He read a lot of Whitman, Rimbaud, Sartre, Camus...
...Harlequin Theater Company presents Total Eclipse, a biographical drama about poets Rimbaud and Verlaine, at the Agassiz Theater in the Radcliffe Yard, Thursday-Sunday at 8, through January 29. Also at Harvard, the Loeb features the National Theater of the Deaf in The Three Musketeers, January...
Finally, Beckett's translations of important French poets such as Eluard, Rimbaud, and Apollinaire are not only valuable literary pieces but works which provide a valuable insight into Beckett himself. Balanced and accurate, they are fine poems in their own right; his translation of Rimbaud's "Drunken Boat...