Rimbaud: First Blood

[luka]

Wallace Fowlie.

 

[Benny Bunter]

At last. I only had to ask about 56 times.

He is best known for his translations of Arthur Rimbaud, which were appreciated by a younger generation that included Jim Morrison (whose work Fowlie also became a scholar of) and Patti Smith.[3] In 1990, Fowlie consulted with director Oliver Stone on the film The Doors.

🔥

 

[Benny Bunter]

This is the land where the Pharaoh died
The Negroes in the forest brightly feathered
They are saying, "forget the night
Live with us in forests of azure
Out here on the perimeter there are no stars
Out here we is stoned, immaculate"

Listen to this, and I'll tell you 'bout the heartache
I'll tell you 'bout the heartache and the loss of God
I'll tell you 'bout the hopeless night
The meager food for souls forgot
I'll tell you 'bout the maiden with wrought iron soul!

Soft, driven, slow and mad, like some new language

I'll tell you this
No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn!

 

[Benny Bunter]

”Dear Wallace Fowlie…thanks for doing the Rimbaud translation…I am a rock singer and your book travels around with me.” The 1968 note was signed Jim Morrison, but French literature professor Fowlie had no idea who that was.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Horse Latitudes​

The Doors​

When the still sea conspires an armor
And her sullen and aborted
Currents breed tiny monsters
True sailing is dead
Awkward instant
And the first animal is jettisoned
Legs furiously pumping
Their stiff green gallop
And heads bob up
Poise
Delicate
Pause
Consent
In mute nostril agony
Carefully refined
And sealed over

 

[IdleRich]

Rimbaud: First Blood is a pun on the same level as Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life - someone apparently decided that that was so good they actually had to make the film to go with it - as far as I know there is as yet no film to go with this pun, let's keep it that way.

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

Peter Capaldi made the Kafka film. He won an Oscar for it.

 

[Benny Bunter]

in case you don't know the guy who wrote the Rambo novel was a big fan of Rimbaud and etc

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

Anyone heard of this one? Is it legit?

The Spiritual Hunt

Referenced only in a few letters of Paul Verlaine, The Spiritual Hunt is Arthur Rimbaud's forgotten masterwork, a poem in five parts that explored the mystic...

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A long lost poem purportedly by Rimbaud is finally made available in English.​

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Referenced only in a few letters of Paul Verlaine, The Spiritual Hunt is Arthur Rimbaud's forgotten masterwork, a poem in five parts that explored the mystic philosophy that guided the young poet's heart and hand. Considered lost for years, a typewritten manuscript appeared in Paris in the late 1920s, circulating around a close-knit group of booksellers, poets, and playwrights. Yet it wasn't until 1949 that Mercure de France took the initiative to publish the unauthenticated galley and unleashed a literary controversy that shook France. Sides were drawn, with Andre Breton leading the charge of forgery, calling the work an utter hoax, and others defending it as legitimate and an essential key to understanding Rimbaud and his work. Bookstores were raided for copies, critics were skewered in journals, and tempers flared on radio and in print, but no conclusive judgement could be drawn and Mercure de France withdrew the work from publication and pulped all the copies they could find.​

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Now, seventy-five years after its initial imbroglio, The Spiritual Hunt is available in English for the first time with a facsimile letterpress edition of the original. Featuring Pascal Pia's original introduction along with an edifying afterword by translator Emine Ersoy.​

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

This bloke makes some wild leaps from a couple of photos which may not even be him. Apparently Rimbaud was gang-raped in the Paris Commune?!

https://aidanandrewdun.com/arthur-rimbaud-the-discovery-of-two-new-portraits/

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

Just three steps to topple your Bastille into dust
The thing sweated blood from its stones

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

If I have a taste, it's for
Earth and stone,
I feast on air,
Rock, iron, coal.