Read the first chapter of "Rimbaud Complete", edited and translated by Wyatt Mason.
One explanation is that he was a brilliant brat: Arthur Rimbaud, the enfant terrible of late 19th century French verse, dashed off poems in puberty that grown men continue to admire and study.
Others dismiss Rimbaud's work as little more than an artistic line drawn through his lascivious affair with the French poet Paul Verlaine, calling Rimbaud "a pouting poster boy of the bohemian left."
The author who's just published a new translation of Rimbaud says that's all too simple, that Rimbaud deserves celebration, careful reading and a fair shot from the academy. Trouble is, Rimbaud's story is just so juicy. The kid writes his last poem at age 21, then disappears on a Capitalist quest into the jungle of East Africa for the second half of his life.
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