These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.
In the summer of 1876, rebel French poet Arthur Rimbaud arrived on the Indonesian island of Java, enlisting in the colonial Dutch army before deserting after just two weeks, an escape still ...
Maguire explores the legacy of a French poet who personified independence in an age of dogma. In France at the end of the 19th century, modernity became the battleground for a collision of ...