Well it passes a quiet hour at home at the end of a long week. Here is\u00a0my favourite poem. Indeed, this is my favourite poem, by my favourite<\/p>\n
poet – the young boyfriend of Paul Verlaine, another mid19th century
\nFrench poet. They were both hounded by French society of the time, once
\ntheir relationship became very public through some rather more baudy
\npoems than this one.<\/p>\n
I ran away in 1985, at the age of 21, and arrived in Boulogne with 34p
\nin my pocket, and spent 5 months begging and hitching around Europe,
\nwith one book in my rucksack – the poems of Arthur Rimbaud.<\/p>\n
The full text is here. The video of me reciting it is Genie by Arthur Rimbaud<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well it passes a quiet hour at home at the end of a long week. Here is\u00a0my favourite poem. Indeed, this is my favourite poem, by my favourite poet – the young boyfriend of Paul Verlaine, another mid19th century French poet. They were both hounded by French society of the time, once their relationship became … Continue reading “Rimbaud”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tubthumper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nhttp:\/\/www.press.uchicago.edu\/Misc\/Chicago\/719774_poem5.html<\/a><\/p>\n