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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A story inspired by the life of the late-nineteenth-century poet traces his explosive entry into the Paris literary scene, his passionate affair with an older married poet who shot him when he tried to end the relationship, and his later prosperity as a trader and arms dealer.
16) Radiant days
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
She is a painter. He is a poet. Their art bridges time. It is 1978. Merle is in her first year at the Corcoran School of Art, catapulted from her impoverished Appalachian upbringing into a sophisticated, dissipated art scene. It is also 1870. The teenage poet Arthur Rimbaud is on the verge of breaking through to the images and voice that will make his name. The meshed power of words and art thins the boundaries between the present and the past—and...
