The American Poetry Review, January 1st, 2005
ANTONIN ARTAUD IS ONE OF THE GREATEST EXAMPLES IN ART OF THE imaginative retrieval of a life that was beyond repair. What he ultimately accomplished should bear a torch through the dark nights of all our souls.
Artaud was born in Marseilles, France, September 4, 1896. As a child he suffered terrible head pains and meningitis; at eighteen, he had a nervous breakdown. In 1920, a doctor in a Swiss clinic introduced him to opium, setting up a lifelong addiction to drugs. The same doctor proposed that he strike out on his own and go to Paris.
Artaud's first artistic period (1920-1936) revolves ...
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