Archive for October 13, 2011
DISASTER WAS MY GOD by Bruce Duffy
I was in my late thirties when the poet Arthur Rimbaud first crossed my horizon. It was Jim Harrison, the American writer, who brought him to my attention. In his memoir OFF TO THE SIDE, Harrison writes, “I think that I was nineteen when Rimbaud’s ‘Everything we are taught is false’ became my modus operandi.” Harrison continues, “…Rimbaud’s defiance of society was vaguely criminal and at nineteen you try to determine what you are by what you are against.” I admire Harrison a great deal. If he liked Rimbaud, if Rimbaud was the man, then I needed to know more.
October 13, 2011
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Judi Clark · 
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Tags: Doubleday, Fictional Biography, Historical · Posted in: Africa, Facing History, France, Real People Fiction, Writing Life
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