Category Archives: Arthur Rimbaud

“A Frank O’Hara Notebook” by Bill Berkson

Posted on January 3, 2019 by Andrew Epstein

When the poet and art critic Bill Berkson passed away in 2016, he left behind a notebook full of fragments and notes about his close and decisive friendship with Frank O’Hara.  Apparently, he had been planning for many years to … Continue reading →

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John Ashbery’s First Love and Rimbaud

Posted on May 4, 2016 by Andrew Epstein

            In a new interview at the Brooklyn Rail with Jarrett Earnest, John Ashbery speaks candidly about an early, formative experience that I don’t recall seeing him ever mention before. When Jarrett says “a lot of people … Continue reading →

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Hilton Als on John Ashbery’s Rimbaud

Posted on February 26, 2016 by Andrew Epstein

In the New Yorker, Hilton Als reviews a new production called “Rimbaud in New York,” which is based on John Ashbery’s translation of Arthur Rimbaud’s great collection of prose poems, Illuminations.  As Als explains: Working from Ashbery’s translation of Rimbaud, the Civilians, a … Continue reading →

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