Rimbaud's passing day

The poet adventurer mourned

   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 …