AFTER THE FLOOD by Arthur Rimbaud As soon as the idea of the Flood abated, a hare stopped amid the trembling sainfoin and harebells and said his prayer to the rainbow through the spider’s web. Oh! the precious stones hiding, the flowers already watching. In the dirty main road stalls were set up, and boats [...]
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Two Prose Poems from Les Illuminations translated by Robert Yates
Posted in Uncategorized on December 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Was Rimbaud a Revolutionary Socialist?
Posted in Uncategorized on June 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Apart from being a literary prodigy, Rimbaud is known above all as a rebel, “the first and greatest poet of revolt”, as Camus hailed him. But was he in any sense a socialist writer? If we consider the main trait of socialism to be a concern with the poor and the downtrodden, then the answer [...]
Arthur Rimbaud : The Hands of Mary-Jane
Posted in Uncategorized on December 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Les Mains de Jeanne-Marie”, written close to the time of the Paris Commune (May 1871), when there was a short-lived popular government in Paris, is the nineteenth-century French revolutionary poem par excellence. The ballad form imitates actual ‘broadsheet poems’ of the time and the image of disembodied hands running amok and killing people indiscriminately surely [...]
Rimbaud as a Social and Political Poet
Posted in Uncategorized on February 12, 0201 | Leave a Comment »
Talk : “Arthur Rimbaud and the Paris Commune of 1871″ by Sebastian Hayes Marx Memorial Library, 37a Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R ODU 25 October At a previous talk on Arthur Rimbaud to mark the publication of his recent book (Rimbaud Revisited & Une Saison en Enfer, A New Translation Brimstone Press, 2010) given at the [...]
