A note, noting that the same Jeremy Harding who wrote a
praiseworthy review of Conductors of Chaos for the London Review of
Books has a long and worthwhile review-essay in that same journal`s
current number, based upon Charles Nicholl`s very good book, Someone
Else, about Rimbaud`s career in Africa.
I can recommend Someone Else (hang on, is it Somebody Else? I think
it`s Somebody Else.) in its own right. Far from being some bone-dry
account of a huckster who used to write poems: the first five
chapters or so offer an excellent digest of the available biographies
covering the poet`s first twenty or so years on this earth. And the
book`s not long out in paperback, with some good photographs too,
including the cover, one of the portraits of the black Rimbaud
which so thrilled the Surrealists.
robin
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