{"id":67116,"date":"2025-06-19T11:16:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T15:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=67116"},"modified":"2025-06-19T12:34:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T16:34:23","slug":"channeling-rimbauds-last-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2025\/06\/channeling-rimbauds-last-words.html","title":{"rendered":"Channeling Rimbaud’s Last Words<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Let us recall this masterpiece to honor Carl Weissner<\/a> (1940-2012), born 85 years ago today.<\/em><\/h6>\n\n\n
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The last words of Arthur Rimbaud as imagined by Carl Weissner <\/strong>
was published in a limited handmade edition designed by Gerard Bellaart; translated and edited from the German by Keith Seward and myself.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Printed on handmade Barcham\u2019s Green<\/em>. Trim size: 328×220 mm.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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A poem about cherished ol’ friend Carl from Midnight Sonnets<\/a><\/em>. (Click the image to enlarge.)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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This poem about Carl Weissner is from Midnight Sonnets<\/a><\/em>.
The collage is by Norman O. Mustill.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The last words of Arthur Rimbaud as imagined by Carl Weissner was published in a limited handmade edition. It is a small masterpiece \u2014 small only because it isn’t longer.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,26,18,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-67116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-books","9":"category-literature","10":"category-main","11":"category-news","12":"category-political-culture","13":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/RIMBAUD-2-enh-crp.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-hsw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67116"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67217,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67116\/revisions\/67217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}