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Verlaine and Rimbaud
"There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry-
This traverse may
the poorest take
Without oppress of Toll-
How frugal is the Chariot
That bears the
Human Soul."
Emily Dickenson
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"A Season in Hell" Rimbaud
Rimbaud
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CUT
What a thrill -
My thumb instead of an onion.
The top quite gone
Except for a sort of hinge
Of skin,
A flap like a hat,
Dead white.
Then that red plush.
Little pilgrim,
The Indian's axed your scalp.
Your turkey wattle
Carpet rolls
Straight from the heart.
I step on it,
Clutching my bottle
Of pink fizz. A celebration, this is.
Out of a gap
A million soldiers run,
Redcoats, every one.
Whose side are they one?
O my
Homunculus, I am ill.
I have taken a pill to kill
The thin
Papery feeling.
Saboteur,
Kamikaze man -
The stain on your
Gauze Ku Klux Klan
Babushka
Darkens and tarnishes and when
The balled
Pulp of your heart
Confronts its small
Mill of silence
How you jump -
Trepanned veteran,
Dirty girl,
Thumb stump.
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Sylvia Plath
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"The Alchemy of Words," a play written and produced by acclaimed author Stephen Amidon, (back when we were at Wake Forest University), directed by fellow classmate D. Jackson Savage.
Rimbaud
Linoleum cut
D. Jackson Savage
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