rimbaud, arthur

A collection of nearly one hundred of the author's poems translated from the French, including selected prose.

In 1978, Merle is in her first year at the Corcoran School of Art. In 1870, teenage poet Arthur Rimbaud is on the verge of breaking through to his own voice in his work. The power of art and words thins the boundaries between the present and the past and Merle and Arthur are able to enter each other's worlds.

Examines the parallels in the lives of nineteenth-century French poet Arthur Rimbaud and rock musician Jim Morrison, one of Rimbaud's admirers.