So I read the book called Season in Hell + Illuminations and I thought it was genius, free form poetry became like a spell to me, much stronger than the one of rhyme. I love it deeply, and I love its mania and the many images it has, the thing is that it is a little… disenchanted? I mean, this is a great writer, great writer, but he gets kinda sat at times, and his mania turns into a whirlwind of disillusion towards the world and illusion towards his own individuality, I want a book that is still not disappointed with the real world, I want something that gives ownership of the world towards the reader.
Ah! Listen I don't know if I am explaining myself well, I sound like an idiot (because I am) but this is really important to me, I usually use music to lift my spirit but at work I can't use my phone, and get music, and it is only two or three lines of poetry that can lift me up and give me strength. If Rimbaud says "the spring gave me the fool's unbearable laughter." that can carry me for two days of office work and give me a smile that warms my being towards my coworkers and friends, I need this! I need it so bad!
Rimbaud sometimes says stuff like "My hallucinations are endless. This is what I've always gone through: the end of my faith in history, the neglect of my principles. I shall say no more about this: poets and visionaries would be jealous. I am the richest one of all, a thousand times, and I will hoard it like the sea." and I don't want that! I want someone that says "My hallucinations are endless. This is what I've always gone through: the beginning of my faith in history, the neglect of God's principles. I shall say no more about this: poets and visionaries will be under my wing. I am the fool of them all, a thousand times, and I will hoard it like the sea." Do you get what I mean? Rimbaud is really special because he is maladjusted, but he gave up to his maladjusted state, I want someone who takes his misfit state into a strength! That pushes through! In the form of overflowing free form poetry! Spells! Ah!! It is too much to ask? I know the possibility of write poetry myself is there, but while this week passes by, I need someone else to take my hand! Please!
Tl;dr: Looking for free-form, manic, uplifting poetry like Rimbaud but without the disillusionment, I would prefer if the disillusionment is changed by love of the random, chaos, virtue or metaphysics, something weird!!
by Hazamelis