BIRD & BECKETT CULTURAL LEGACY PROJECT
Walker Brents III addresses the enigma of Rimbaud after he’s forsworn the poet’s life in Paris. Becoming someone else was Arthur Rimbaud’s task again and again. On the page it turned into unforgettable poetry. On the actual globe it became strange adventures in frontier borderlands. The poetry runs on in symbolic suggestion. The journeys in time and space are recollected in fragments that betoken strange frequencies. Our heart-strings vibrate collectively. We don’t know what it means, but he speaks to us even if he never meant to. He couldn’t help it. He was born to create an interesting story of himself, a universal one despite his best intentions…