When: Tuesday, October 7
Where: 192 Books; 192 Tenth Ave. at 21st St., NYC
What Time: 7 p.m.
Event Information: Seating is limited: reservations necessary:  212.255.4022

Distinguished biographer, novelist, memoirist, Chelsea neighbor and great friend of 192 Books, Edmund White brings his literary mastery to a new biography of Arthur Rimbaud; Rimbaud:  The Double Life of a Rebel (Atlas & Co.  2008).

Poet and prodigy Arthur Rimbaud led a life that was startlingly short, but just as dramatically eventful and accomplished. Even today, over a century after his death in 1891, his visionary poetry has continued to influence.

Edmund White writes with a historian's eye for detail, driven by a genuine personal investment in his subject. White delves deep into the young poet's relationships with his family, his teachers, and his notorious affair with the more established poet Paul Verlaine. He follows the often elusive (sometimes blatant) threads of sexual taboo that haunt Rimbaud's poems (in those days, sodomy was a crime) and offers incisive interpretations of the poems, using his own artful translations to bring us closer to the mercurial poet.