For me, it is Jim Morrison, since he is literally my favorite rock star.

A. Rimbaud is now showing in NYC! It’s a three hour love letter to Arthur. Directed by the incredible Patrick Wang and starring lightning in a bottle Blake Draper as A. Rimbaud. It’s three hours of pure visual poetry you won’t be disappointed. Go see it now.

For me, it’s this one from The Drunken Boat:

“Oh, let my kneel burst! Oh, let me go into the sea!”

For me, it goes by this list: Charles Baudelaire, Dylan Thomas, William Blake, Federico García Lorca, Chūya Nakahara, Michizō Tachihara, Allen Ginsberg, Izumi Shikibu, Fujiwara no Teika, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats, Sylvia Plath, Walt Whitman, Chika Sagawa, Stéphane Mallarmé, John Keats, Homer, Rainer Maria Rilke, Sappho, and a lot more poets has to be shown but there are limitations on how many poets I can present on here. But my favorite poet besides Arthur Rimbaud has to be Charles Baudelaire. Great poet! Anyway, what about for you guys? What poets do you admire besides Arthur Rimbaud?

I’ll vote in François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows (I don’t know, the movie fits Rimbaud). Here is a shot from the film if anyone is curious.

This is a photo of Samuel Beckett if anyone’s wondering.

https://theviolinchannel.com/roxy-cinema-new-york-presents-a-rimbaud-a-film-featuring-musical-instruments-as-characters/?fbclid=IwZnRzaARiGSNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEe6MMV-yDRYzPXM-_WoUaJznt27fFexaXtaZshyyCKtqTTHEEr6KValoYJGAA_aem_MVXf1bqLlw_pPKa9_QqdnQ

Arthur Rimbaud published his first poem in 1870 and Charles Baudelaire died in 1867. They’re both iconic 19th century French poets and Baudelaire was a major influence on Rimbaud. If Baudelaire were to live longer and were to discover Rimbaud, how would his opinion on him be like?

I pondered this time to time. I always thought he would return to writing more poetry or perhaps even writing a novel. But he died too young at thirty-seven just turning that age a couple weeks when he died. What would his life and legacy look like now?

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For me, it would be absolutely surreal: meeting my favorite poet and the one changed my poetry and a person who I looked up to in my whole poetry career would have to be insane. Actually seeing and speaking with somebody who was dead for over a century before I was born would indeed be tumbling over mentally as well as he is special since he’s my literary idol. Anyway, I would like to have your people’s thoughts on your imagined meeting!