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French symbolist poet (1844-1896)

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Paul Verlaine

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Downes teaches music at the University of Otago; he is also a member of the rock band The Verlaines. The book is distributed in the US by ISBS.

Dunedin soundings; place and performance

He uses his own experiences as a musician in New Zealand and also addresses the indie culture in US and UK and bands such as the Smiths, The Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, The Go-Betweens, REM, The Replacements, Dinosaur Jr., Husker Du, Nirvana, The Chills, The Clean, the Verlaines, Chris Knox, Bailter Space, and The Bats.

White boys, white noise; masculinities and 1980s indie guitar rock

The first series of Le Parnasse contemporain (1886), a collection of pieces by contemporary French poets, contained eight poems by Verlaine. The same year, his first volume of poetry appeared.

In August 1870 Verlaine married Mathilde Maute; in the delicious poems written during their engagement (La Bonne Chanson, 1870), he sees her as his long-hoped-for savior from his erring ways.

Leaving prison in January 1875, Verlaine tried a Trappist retreat, then hurried to Stuttgart to meet Rimbaud, who apparently repulsed him with violence.

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