Is the brightest kind of maturity for us, right now at any rate. Reading those lines of Ashbery’s, or ones written much more recently or even earlier, one would never think to say that his tone has ...

Obsessing as so many are on the small niceties of American politics—i.e., the final confrontation between the forces of light and darkness on which all of humanity’s future depends—let us spare a ...

The story, of course, is the stuff of legend: after a painful affair with the older, married poet Paul Verlaine, Rimbaud (1854–1891) put poetry behind him at age 21 and became a commercial traveler in ...

Lindens smell fine on fine June nights! Sometimes the air is so sweet that you close your eyes; The wind brings sounds—the town is near— And carries scents of vineyards and beer. . . II. —Over there, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Good luck trying to identity the first rebel artist. Yes, there was probably some wild outsider who drew confrontational sketches on caves that shocked the community 28,000 years ...

French poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) is known as much for his legend as his writing. Taking up at age 16 with older fellow poet Paul Verlaine, Rimbaud shocked even the bohemians of Paris with his ...

C4: the Choral Composer/Conductor Collective will present Rimbaud: This Fugitive Soul, featuring baritone, Muir Ingliss, at Saint Peter's Church, 619 Lexington Avenue New York, NY on June 14 (8pm) and ...

Stéphane Mallarmé caught a glimpse of Arthur Rimbaud on only one occasion and it was the younger poet’s hands that stuck in his memory. These were, he later wrote, “vast hands, red with sores,” which ...

David Wojnarowicz, "Arthur Rimbaud in New York (on shore)" (1978–79), silver print (© Estate of David Wojnarowicz; all photos courtesy Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P·P·O·W, New York) Rimbaud died ...