March 7, 2007
Total Eclipse-
It follows Rimbaud’s life from the time when he started to write poetry at 16 to the moment of his death at 37. What an artist! What a poet! What a man! He started and abandoned poetry only for one reason: He wanted “to help people” through poetry and it was for this sacred passion that he decided to become the “first poet” of his century. At 19 he realized that by poetry alone you can’t improve the world. Thus, he put writing aside and went to Africa. And it was in this abandoning of poetry “for its own sake” that his life became a poem for humanity. A poem written by light and blood.
Posted by amin at March 7, 2007 12:56 AM