Rimbaud 2- First Blood!

[jack_babalon]

Since i've run out of books to read, and my four color habit just isn't doing it for me right now,i've blown the dust off my old Baudelaire, Rimbaud & Verlaine reader I got for my birthday over a decade ago and revisted some dead frogs before passing out last night. It'sfun to realize how many of the nuances a 20 something me didn't pick up on at the time and going back now and rereading the prose poems I can remember the imagery and rhythm I wanted to appropiate(what an artist says instead of "stealing")into my own work.So I got French decadence on the brain right now and I thought I'd share...
"The worn-out ideas of old-fashioned poetry played an important part in my alchemy of the word.

I got used to elementary hallucination: I could very precisely see a mosque instead of a factory, a drum corps of angels, horse carts on the highways of the sky, a drawing room at the bottom of a lake; monsters and mysteries. A vaudeville's title filled me with awe.

And so I explained my magical sophistries by turning words into visions!"
-Arthur Rimbaud
Second Delerium:Alchemy of the word

Comments

[ninsun.livejournal.com]

i have run out of books to read too, what do you recommend?

RE: what do you recommend?

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

Some recents favorites
1)Dan Leno & the Limehouse Golem- Peter Ackroyd:
A great little historical murder mystrey/thriller in late 19th century England. Based on real events and characters. Great little tidbits about the 'Eternal recurrence' of the streets of London.
also recommended by Ackroyd-"London: the biography"
this is the reason I had to go there in the beginning of the year. It's a dense read but OMG what a blast.
2)Baudolino- Umberto Eco: A historical epic about an Italian peasant in the middle ages with two great talents- The ability to master any tongue and a talent for telling tall tales(lies) who falls under the patronage of Frederick the great and embarks on a series of mind blowing adventures.
This ones not as esoteric as 'Foucalt's Pendelum' and reads real quick.
3)Sex & Rockets- Alan Carter- the biography of Jack Parsons- American Rocket scientist & Hermetic magician. A little dry in spots but WOW! What a life- occultism,L Ron Hubbard, space races, tantra and explosions in a very different 1950's America.
4)The Unbearable Lightness of being- Milan Kundera. Given your education I'm betting you've read this before - if not- PICK IT UP NOW! 'nuff said. Those are some of this years favorites (so far)- sorry to ramble doll, so what do ya recommend for me?

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

I miss the vice
of a man like Christ
and there are too many Arthur Rimbauds
But I'm not going back to the Garden
and I'm not going back to the Rose. - L. Cohen

Rimbaud III: A Season in Hell. - G. Morrison

*smiley*

RE:Rimbaud III: A Season in Hell. - G. Morrison

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

Pretty cool qoutes but I can't place the G.Morrison
line(I assume you mean Grant Morrison)-something from his pre-DC work in the late 80's maybe?

Re: RE:Rimbaud III: A Season in Hell. - G. Morrison

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

Yes, Grant Morrison.

A one shot titled "St. Swithin's Day" -- well worth finding.