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   Today is the anniversary of the death of Arthur Rimbaud. I would like to share a piece I wrote for a Gallimard special edition of A Season in Hell. It has not been published in English. Rimbaud died in Marseille on November 10, 1891, not long after his 38th birthday.   His last wish was to travel; to be carried by stretcher to a ship that would take …

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