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  1. ( September 8th, 2011 )

    The perfect book to travel in France with. John Ashberry’s new translation of Arthur Rimbaud’s Illuminations. Absolute modernity was for Rimbaud the acknowledging of the simultaneity of all life, the condition that nourishes poetry every second. The self is obsolete: In Rimbaud’s famous formulation, “I is someone else” (“Je est un autre”). In the twentieth century, the coexisting, conflicting views of objects that the Cubist painters cultivated, the equalizing deployment of all notes of the scale in serial music, and the unhierarchical progressions of bodies in motion in the ballets of Merce Cunningham are three examples among many of this fertile destabilization. Somewhat at the root of this, the crystalline jumble of Rimbaud’s Illuminations, like a disordered collection of magic lantern slides, each an “intense and rapid dream,” in his words, is still emitting pulses. If we are absolutely modern - and we are - it’s because Rimbaud commended us to be. Photo Shawn Dogimont

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