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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.…

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There has been no poet like Arthur Rimbaud. Robb gets as close to the young poetic genius and eventual trader in the Horn of Africa like nobody has. Rimbaud's poetry, from the latter part of the 19th century, still feels like it's coming out of the future.

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