Verlaine's Rimbaud
By D.J. Carlile
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D.J. Carlile
Critic, poet, playwright D.J. CARLILE has also translated the complete poems and prose of Arthur Rimbaud (Rimbaud: The Works, Xlibris 2000). "These are the best renditions of Rimbaud in English since Wallace Fowlie's nearly forty years ago, and many of them surpass that high standard. These poems have been wrestled with, which is the very least they demand, and successfully brought back home. Carlile gets the difficult switches and swoops of tone mostly right, and the linguistic detail is impressive--for 'Une voix étreignait mon coeur gelé' you can't get much better than 'a voice would hobble my frostbitten heart'." [2002] Charles Nicholl, author of SOMEBODY ELSE: ARTHUR RIMBAUD IN AFRICA.
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Verlaine's Rimbaud - D.J. Carlile
VERLAINE’S
RIMBAUD
"Toi, dieu parmi les demi-dieux!
… mon grand pêche radieux…"
poems by
PAUL VERLAINE
apropos
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
translated from the French by
D.J. Carlile
with notes and commentary
Copyright © 2016 by D.J. Carlile.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.
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Rev. date: 02/27/2017
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CONTENTS
Introduction
I First Words
Rendezvous
These Passions
It’s Raining in My Heart
Verses for Aspersion
Poet and Muse
II The Road
That Languorous Ecstasy
Green
Whipping Through
Spleen
Walcourt
Belgian Landscapes
On the Endless…
III Cities and the Sea
Kaleidoscope
Beams
Invocation
We Have to Forgive
The Sadness, the Weakness
Limping Sonnet
IV Body and Soul
Sonnet In Praise of the Butthole
At the Café
Mount Me Now…
Bad Bed-Mate
Even When
The Good Disciple
Crime of Love
V Memory
Vintage Seasons
Landscape
Moons I
In the Style Of Paul Verlaine (Moons II)
Explanation (Moons III)
Another Explanation (Moons IV)
Verlaine’s Preface to Illuminations
(1886)
À Arthur Rimbaud
To Arthur Rimbaud
Restless and Rejoicing
For Arthur Rimbaud (After a Portrait-Sketch of Him by His Sister)
The Last Feast of Love
The Art of Poetry
Pierrot
Frontispiece
Dream
Awakening
VI APROPOS P.V. AND A.R.
Appendices
Rimbaud’s Verlaine Poems
Young Marrieds
Young Glutton
Feast of Love (Paul Verlaine)
A Season In Hell: Delirium I
Illuminations (2)
Poison Perdu
Spoilt Poison, Spilled Poison
Letters Rimbaud-Verlaine
New Notes on Rimbaud : Verlaine 1895
Chanson d’automne
Song of Autumn
Notes
Sources
This is for
C. Tyler Price
Feliks T. & Tony O.
Jubo G. & Britny D.
The original sense of genius…had a spiritual rather than a physical sense and implied the primitive creative power with which a man is born… .
In real love, as opposed to confused sexual groping or a simple decision to marry and settle down, genius is always present; and manifests itself with its usual supra-sensory bending of time into a manageable ring.
Robert Graves
Genius
DIFFICULT QUESTIONS, EASY ANSWERS 1972
"To Verlaine every corner of the world was alive with tempting and consoling and terrifying beauty … [He] gave its full value to every moment…to every occurrence of the day, to every mood of the mind, to every impulse of the creative instinct…"
Arthur Symons
THE SYMBOLIST MOVEMENT (1919)
"Verlaine—wretched—a career of poverty. Crude manners, habits, ideas—but what a voice! […] Verlaine and Rimbaud, angels chanting Merde! in chorus."
Paul Valéry
NOTEBOOKS (1925-32)
"In a time when most poems were still earnestly literal and picturesque… here was a poet modern in his vertigo and anomie, modern in tone, and modern, indeed, before anyone precisely knew what modern was… .
"Paul Verlaine, arise then!… Sing to us of unquenchable angers—of literature as a blood sport, a criminal enterprise, and war by other means. Sing, heartbroken even now, of the teenage Pied Piper who wrecked your marriage, destroyed your reputation, spent the better part of your inheritance, then led you, a grown man, into the whirlwind, beyond which lay the portals of immortality.
Sing, great shade, of the monsters together.
Bruce Duffy
DISASTER WAS MY GOD (2011)
What can be said of the passionate friendships which must be confused with love, and yet nevertheless are something else…?
Jean Cocteau
OPIUM (1930)
INTRODUCTION
By the time he was 25 years old, Paul Verlaine was an established poet, recently married into money and lionized by the literary crowd that surrounded him. In the summer of 1871 he received a batch of astonishingly mature works from a young poet in the provinces of northern France. After a brief exchange of letters, Verlaine sent train fare and summoned Arthur Rimbaud, age fifteen, to Paris. In his letters the teenage poet had given his age as twenty-one. His arrival in Paris changed both of their lives.
Rimbaud was introduced to the literati where his recently completed poem "The Drunken Boat"—100 lines of hallucinatory vividness—made waves among them. Verlaine himself was swept away, smitten by this young man with the perfectly oval face of an exiled angel ... and disquietingly blue eyes
(as he would later describe him). The two poets soon forged a bond that became the object of in-crowd scandal and gossip. Fiercely precocious, Rimbaud was wholly devoted to a program of deranging [or deregulating] all the senses,
where, as Jean-Luc Steinmetz has described it, self-depravity furnished a reverse method of self-transformation that would renew poetic vision.
The young poet called for Verlaine’s complicity in this program, encouraging all of the older poet’s alcoholic, drug-prone, violent, and homoerotic tendencies. Within a year Verlaine had deserted his wife and infant son, heading for Belgium in the company of Rimbaud, then sixteen. They left Paris by train, then travelled on foot with no luggage and little money. They slept in fields or at wayside shelters.
They led a precarious existence in Brussels, eventually relocating to London the following year. They lived on money sent by Verlaine’s mother out of his inheritance and the occasional odd job as French tutors. In the summer of 1873, after a name-calling fracas, Verlaine abruptly deserted Rimbaud, leaving him stranded in the British metropolis. Within days, however, they had reunited in Brussels (magic town
—la ville magique—as Verlaine called it). Rimbaud wanted to return to Paris; Verlaine, facing divorce proceedings there, wanted to go back to London, despite their shaky financial situation in that city. After two days of increasing impasse, Verlaine went out at 6:00 A.M., got drunk, then bought a pistol and a box of ammunition. (It’s for you and me and everyone!
he would tell Rimbaud).
That