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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ARTHUR RIMBAUD (491 pp.)—Enid Sfarkie—New Directions ($10). Seventy-one years ago, a poet was dying of gangrene in a Marseille hospital: one of his legs was amputated, the other might have to go.

Robert Mapplethorpe, Patti Smith, 1974. Photo: Courtesy of The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation to the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Patti Smith, the poet and rock ...

Forecast: Rimbaud purists will remain with Fowlie, who offers a selection of letters and French versions of the poems (which the Bernard has but Schmidt lacks). For those in search of a "complete" ...