The Return of Poetry Corner AKA Arthur Rimbaud
It was just a matter of time until I brought this back. It's been on and off for years, much like Lisa Left Eye Lopes and her football player boyfriend until her untimely death RIP LISA. Anyway. Arthur Rimbaud was an extremely cool French poet before cool even existed. I mean the 1800s, obviously. you know he was cool because Leo played him in a film! Rimbaud grew up an exquisite little terror; he was one of the reasons people are frightened to have children (cough). He slept around with the poet Paul Verlaine and was a general degenerate, as a lot of poets are/can be. That's cool; I'm just calling the pot black here. He traveled around a lot and died in an exotic location of an exotic ailment (ooh) at the age of 37. But his legacy! Rimbaud influenced Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan and Patti "Just Kids" Smith in the 20th century. See, what did I tell you? COOL. read on: Lives I Oh! the huge avenues of the holy land, t...