by phillipw | Oct 2, 2019 | RI
Hard Mast Deck “looks as if the horizon’s been multiplied” What multiplied the poets’ horizon? What took them both together far beyond Mere reality? What was the mizen Driving them past the little bourgeois pond That they had lived in till they crashed against...
by phillipw | Oct 2, 2019 | RI
Marked = Scarred “I shall gash myself all over. I shall tattoo myself. I want to become as hideous as a Mongol. You’ll see. I’ll go screaming through the streets.” ~ Arthur Rimbaud Admit it. Geniuses are scarred, as are Perverted men. If we combine...
by phillipw | Oct 2, 2019 | RI, VE
As on the Smoked Walls of Lascaux “To judge simply by their writings, Verlaine and Rimbaud had not an active political idea to juggle between them—‘I don’t read the French papers any more,’ Verlaine wrote to a friend in June 1873. ‘But what harm in that?’ If they were...