Many of the later poems of the Poésies prefigure Rimbaud’s subsequent experimentation with language. The May 15, 1871 letter to Demeny combines Rimbaud’s visionary program with a linguistic agenda and indicts a whole tradition of French verse, from Jean Racine to the Romantics, with only Cha...
Bellos has a rather absurd argument that talk about "faithful" translations is derived from sexism and slavery [pp.128-130]. This is perhaps of a piece with his idea that there is no such thing as a "literal" translation. However, a faithful translation, literal or otherwise, preserves the...