Rimbaud’s Illuminations

I remember discovering Arthur Rimbaud’s Illuminations around 1994 or so and thinking that those poems were the pinnacle of his artistic expression and perhaps poetry itself in terms of subject matter and beauty. I soon set out to write The River of Swans, Advent (Omega) and much later Vandalia (the continuation of the River of Swans) , which all utilized the (open and suggestive) prose poem form that Rimbaud employs so well throughout Illuminations. 

9/19/2024

The Poetic Vocation

I always thoight the poetic vocation was to be 

as Hesse said "the bearer of human longing" and 

to convey Divine mystery. I think about the "ordinary extraordinary"

as Goethe put it as well that surrounds us all of the time.

The Poet's Year @ https://tbyron.livejournal.com/496630.html

has always given great insight since 1990 or so.

Correspondence with P.S. Colley

9/9/2024