The Drunken Boat

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Author
Rimbaud, Arthur
Publish Date
04/19/2022
Book Type
Paperback
Publisher Name
NYRBPOE
Subtitle
Selected Writings
Number of Pages
336
Edition
Bilingual
ISBN-10
1681376504
ISBN-13
9781681376509
SKU
9781681376509

Description

A new translation of the best and most provocative work by France's infamous rebel poet, in a bilingual edition

Poet, prodigy, precursor, punk: the short, precocious, uncompromisingly rebellious career of the poet Arthur Rimbaud is one of the legends of modern literature. By the time he was twenty, Rimbaud had written a series of poems that are not only masterpieces in themselves but that forever transformed the idea of what poetry is. Without him, surrealism is inconceivable, and his influence is palpable in artists as diverse as Henry Miller, John Ashbery, Bob Dylan, and Patti Smith. In this essential volume, renowned translator Mark Polizzotti offers authoritative and inspired new versions of Rimbaud’s major poems and letters, including generous selection of Illuminations and the entirety of his lacerating confession A Season in Hell—capturing as never before not only the meaning but also the daredevil attitudes and incantatory rhythms that make Rimbaud’s works among the most perpetually modern of his or any other generation.