Poem

Rimbaud's Nurse

Title Rimbaud's Nurse
Author Theo Dorgan

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology Year of Publication Medium View Details
What This Earth Cost Us 2008 Print Collection View Details
Publication Instance Details #3273
Collection/Anthology Details
Collection/Anthology What This Earth Cost Us
Date of Publication 2008
Publisher Dedalus Press (Ireland)
Page Number(s) 88
Publication Overview
Translation Is Multilingual Explicit Irish Context? Ekphrasis Has Paratext? Reference to News, Media or Technology
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Human Rights Issues
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Genre Short Lyric
Medium Print Collection
Notes The speaker of the poem is the nurse of French poet Arthur Rimbaud who died of bone cancer in a hospital in Marseilles in 1891 at the age of 37. References to Rimbaud's suffering, medication and travels. The title of the collection What the Earth Cost Us is a quote by Osip Mandelstam.
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