Tag: Arthur Rimbaud
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* thistleburrs & the friday influence
Song of the Barren Orange Tree – Federico Garcia Lorca * Woodcutter. Cut my shadow from me. Free me from the torment of seeing myself without fruit. Why was I born among mirrors? The day walks in circles around me, and the night copies me in all its stars. I want to live…
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* some Rimbaud thoughts & eating your own heart out
I is an other. – Arthur Rimbaud *** Mr. Rimbaud may be responsible for our contemporary poetry workshops. The spirit of these words can be heard around any discussion of a poem in terms of its speaker: the speaker seems real; the speaker isn’t believable; it feels as is if the speaker has issues with…
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* bert meyers, poems in pockets, and update
Evening on the Farm – Bert Meyers Time for a jacket now, and to put my hands away. I must learn from the stars how a field should look. But one by one, bright children, the stars rush downstairs to meet my horses and hay with an astonished eye. ***…
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* poets in novels and countdown update
“Coming on the scene, he thought what a mercy shipwrecks were, how clean, their horrors swallowed by the sea. Not so here.” *** The above is from the book I just finished, Bruce Duffy’s Disaster was my God: a novel about the outlaw life of Arthur Rimbaud. The book covers in a meandering manner the…
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