Selected Poems and Letters - Arthur Rimbaud The 1960s - Ferdinand arrives

The 1960s - Ferdinand arrives in Paris from Côte d'Ivoire

and the declining fortunes of a traditional Japanese family

which affirm his Russian-Jewish childhood

reveals the extraordinary variety of his work

Selected Poems and Letters - Arthur Rimbaud The 1960s - Ferdinand arrivesA phenomenally precocious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and exhilarating poet. During his brief five year reign as the enfant terrible of French literature he produced an extraordinary body of poems that range from the exquisite to the obscene, while simultaneously living a life of dissolute excess with his lover and fellow poet, Verlaine. At the age of 21, he abandoned poetry and travelled