Rimbaud and Verlaine in Washington Square Park
- Posted on March 4, 2026
- By The New Yorker
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Rimbaud and Verlaine in Washington Square Park
“Godlike,” by the seminal punk musician Richard Hell, transposes a notorious affair between nineteenth-century French poets to nineteen-seventies New York—and testifies to punk’s paradoxical relationship with the past.
