Rimbaud and Jim Morrison: The Rebel as Poet (Paperback) - Common

"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. Morrison thanked Fowlie for producing an English translation of the complete poems of Rimbaud. He needed the translation, he said, because, "I ...