Rimbaud and Jim Morrison-PB
Rimbaud and Jim Morrison-PB "The poet makes himself into a visionary by a long derangement of all the senses."--RimbaudIn 1968 Jim Morrison, founder and lead singer of the rock band the Doors, wrote…
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Rimbaud and Jim Morrison-PB
"The poet makes himself into a visionary by a long derangement of all the senses."--RimbaudIn 1968 Jim Morrison, founder and lead singer of the rock band the Doors, wrote to Wallace Fowlie, a scholar of French literature and a professor at Duke University. He needed the translation, he said, because, "I don't read French that easily. . . . Morrison thanked Fowlie for producing an English translation of the complete poems of Rimbaud.
In their twinned stories he discovers an uncanny symmetry, a pattern far richer than the simple truth that I am a rock singer and your book travels around with me." Fourteen years later, when Fowlie first heard the music of the Doors, he recognized the influence of Rimbaud in Morrison's lyrics.In Rimbaud and Jim Morrison Fowlie, a master of the form of the memoir, reconstructs the lives of the two youthful poets from a personal perspective.