Rimbaud
A Biography
28 September 2012
Territory Rights — Worldwide including Canada, but excluding the British Commonwealth.
Description
"Superb...the single best work to read about this haunting and haunted poet."—Richard Howard, New York Times Book Review
Unknown beyond the avant-garde at the time of his death, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) has been one of the most destructive and liberating influences on twentieth-century culture. During his lifetime he was a bourgeois-baiting visionary, and the list of his known crimes is longer than the list of his published poems. But his posthumous career is even more astonishing: saint to symbolists and surrealists; poster child for anarchy and drug use; gay pioneer; a major influence on artists from Picasso to Bob Dylan.
Awards
Shortlisted — Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction, 2001