Word: rimbaud
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...Bards began in the 18th century, and before long, these professional singers had assembled enormous anthologies of sijo. In one of them occurs a macabre little lyric by Yi Jong-bo that reads like one of Rimbaud's more lurid Illuminations...
Socrates, Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, Rimbaud, Wilde, Gide: What was that, Miss Brown...
...heard in Hanoi, as well as in New York, Dakar or any place where hypochondriacs have no intention of curing themselves of that bittersweet nostalgia known as the Maladie de Paris. But his verses are also published in the prestigious Poetes d'Aujourd'hui series alongside Rimbaud, Baudelaire and Valery, and his music is among the best now being written for French song...
...oddity consisted in his early-formed will to remain solitary. On the surface he was dutiful and won a scholarship to Radley, where he learned the natural eccentric's trick of fitting himself to the prescribed philistine middle-class mold while preserving his essence intact. His hero was Rimbaud, most gifted of all those who have opted out of civilization. Brenan wrote pieces in the manner of Rimbaud's Illuminations, and when other boys were crunching candy, he, with no more fuss or sense of sin, munched hashish. With characteristic simplicity, he had written for the stuff...
Anne Stevenson and Donald Junkins will read from their poetry March 13, and March 22 Paul Schmidt will conduct "An Evening with Arthur Rimbaud...