{"id":1308,"date":"2011-05-17T00:06:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T04:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/17\/arthur-rimbaud-seascape-marine\/"},"modified":"2011-06-11T20:04:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T00:04:07","slug":"arthur-rimbaud-seascape-marine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/17\/arthur-rimbaud-seascape-marine\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Rimbaud, “Seascape” (Marine)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Silver and copper chariots—
\nSteel and silver ship’s bows—
\nHammer the foam,—
\nHeave up stumps of brambles.
\n     The currents of the heath,
\nAnd the huge ruts of the ebb tide
\nSwirl toward the east,
\nToward the pillars of the forest,—
\nToward the timbers of the pier,
\nWhose angle is struck by whirlpools of light.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

W.W. Norton has published a new translation of Illuminations<\/i><\/a> by John Ashbery. Thanks to Criticism &c<\/i>, you can compare Ashbery to the Louise Varèse translation<\/a>, and Poetry<\/i> has published four of the poems—“Genie<\/a>,” “Morning of Drunkenness<\/a>,” “Royalty<\/a>,” and “To a Reason<\/a>”—as well as Ashbery’s introductory remarks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And here’s Ashbery reading from “Promontory” earlier this year at the New School…<\/p>\n