Arthur Rimbaud

The Siren's Call: Where's Rimbaud?

2012-04-29 00:00:00

In the worlds of myth and literature, plenty of figures have had their "lost" years. There are, to name a few, Sherlock Holmes (after the plunge from Reichenbach Falls), the wizard Merlin (was he imprisoned in a cave or was he killed?), Shakespeare...

Levon Helm 'one of the last true great spirits,' writes Bob Dylan

2012-04-20 16:36:22

Levon Helm: Joe Henry remembers 'a deacon who spoke our gospel'

2012-04-20 16:36:24

Fire and water at Pasadena's AxS Festival

2011-10-07 21:32:55

Discoveries

2011-04-17 00:00:00

Illuminations Arthur Rimbaud, translated from the French by John Ashbery W.W. Norton: 165 pp., $24.95 This may be the most beautiful book in the world — lighted from within and somehow embodying all forms of literature at the same time. The 44...

When famous writers feud

2009-07-26 00:00:00

Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald are not the only literary friends to see their relationship go cold. Indeed, the history of literature is a history of betrayals, of writers turning on each other and collaborations falling apart. Below, we give...

Remembering Jim Carroll

2009-09-16 00:00:00

Jim Carroll, who died Friday of a heart attack at 60 in Manhattan, was a legend by the time he was 13. That's when the poet Ted Berrigan took him to visit Jack Kerouac, who took a look at some of Jim's writing and said, "Jim Carroll writes better prose...

30 poems in 30 days, on video

2010-04-08 16:34:03

'Auguries of Innocence' by Patti Smith

2008-06-22 00:00:00

Who would have guessed, in the mid-1970s, that Patti Smith would end up as the visionary poet-mother of rock 'n' roll? Smith's brilliant early career seemed likely to end in burnout; as she intoned, memorably, at the start of her 1975 debut album,...

Patti Smith's Photography Sets up a Visual Dialogue With Some of Her Biggest Influences

2011-09-29 00:00:00

Patti Smith: Camera Solo October 21 – February 19 Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 600 Main Street, Hartford, (860) 278-2670, thewadsworth.org. � Rock-and-roll-band-fronting poet Patti Smith, who turns 65 at the end of the year, has been...

The Photography of Patti Smith at the Wadsworth in Hartford

2011-10-18 12:40:00

Patti Smith: Camera Solo, Oct. 21-Feb. 19, Patti Smith reception and performance Oct. 20, 6 p.m., $125-$150, book signing Oct. 21, 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Wadsworth Atheneum, 600 Main St., Hartford, (860) 278-2670. Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and...

Por los caminos de C�te du Rh�ne

2011-07-01 00:00:00

Estoy en Francia, pa�s que se puede caracterizar por decenas de cosas, entre ellas el vino. Ese es el motivo de este viaje que, como se podr�n imaginar, viene "muy bien regado". Yo vivo en Mendoza, Argentina, una "wine region" de crecimiento asombroso en...

Alvin Lustig's cover design for Arthur Rimbaud's 1945 book "A New Season of Hell."

2011-09-21 16:19:43