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The Siren's Call: Where's Rimbaud?
Los Angeles TimesIn the worlds of myth and literature, plenty of figures have had their "lost" years. There are, to name a few, Sherlock Holmes (after the plunge from Reichenbach Falls), the wizard Merlin (was he imprisoned in a cave or was he killed?), Shakespeare...Tags: Ayn Rand, Bob Dylan, Poetry, Literature, Dorothy Lamour
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For Alain Mabanckou, breakthrough translates well
In a UCLA classroom one day not long ago, Alain Mabanckou was teaching a course in post-colonial African fiction, which he instructs in his French mother tongue, one of several languages he speaks. With his easygoing yet focused manner, soccer player's...
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Levon Helm 'one of the last true great spirits,' writes Bob Dylan
Pop & HissBob Dylan, who asked multi-instrumentalist Levon Helm and his band, the Hawks, to join him when he decided to “go electric” in the mid-'60s, has posted a short note on his website about Helm, who died after a long struggle with throat cancer... -
Levon Helm: Joe Henry remembers 'a deacon who spoke our gospel'
Pop & HissLevon Helm: Musician, songwriter and producer Joe Henry writes an appreciation for Levon Helm, drummer and singer with the Band who died on Thursday.... -
Fire and water at Pasadena's AxS Festival
Culture MonsterTaking the theme of Fire and Water for this year’s investigation into how art intersects with science and vice versa, the AxS Festival, put on by the Pasadena Arts Council, offers several showcases for visual art inspired by outer space, dance... -
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Special to the Los Angeles TimesIlluminations Arthur Rimbaud, translated from the French by John Ashbery W.W. Norton: 165 pp., $24.95 This may be the most beautiful book in the world — lighted from within and somehow embodying all forms of literature at the same time. The 44...Tags: Photography, John Ashbery, Bob Dylan, French Literature, American Red Cross
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'Auguries of Innocence' by Patti Smith
Who would have guessed, in the mid-1970s, that Patti Smith would end up as the visionary poet-mother of rock 'n' roll? Smith's brilliant early career seemed likely to end in burnout; as she intoned, memorably, at the start of her 1975 debut album,...Tags: Patti Smith, Death, Poetry, Book
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When famous writers feud
Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald are not the only literary friends to see their relationship go cold. Indeed, the history of literature is a history of betrayals, of writers turning on each other and collaborations falling apart. Below, we give...Tags: Crimes, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Assault, French Literature
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Remembering Jim Carroll
Jim Carroll, who died Friday of a heart attack at 60 in Manhattan, was a legend by the time he was 13. That's when the poet Ted Berrigan took him to visit Jack Kerouac, who took a look at some of Jim's writing and said, "Jim Carroll writes better prose...Tags: Leonardo DiCaprio, Annie Leibovitz, Death, Jack Kerouac, Poetry
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30 poems in 30 days, on video
Jacket CopyThe good folks at Diesel Bookstore -- from its outposts in both northern and southern California -- are celebrating National Poetry Month on video. On the company website, they're posting a poem a day, read by their staff, in videos...... -
Patti Smith's Photography Sets up a Visual Dialogue With Some of Her Biggest Influences
Patti Smith: Camera Solo
October 21 – February 19
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 600 Main Street, Hartford, (860) 278-2670, thewadsworth.org.
Rock-and-roll-band-fronting poet Patti Smith, who turns 65 at the end of the year, has been...Tags: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Documentary (genre), Photography, Arts, Poetry
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Artist Patti Smith Charms Crowd At Wadsworth Opening
The Hartford CourantRock icon-poet-memoirist-photographer Patti Smith charmed the crowd on Thursday night at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, with the opening of her one-woman photography show, "Patti Smith: Camera Solo," and an hourlong performance of...Tags: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Politics, Arts, Aetna Inc., Poetry
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