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New Directions is pleased to announce the relaunch of the
long-celebrated bilingual edition of Rimbaud's A Season In Hell
& The Drunken Boat - a personal poem of damnation as well as a
plea to be released from "the examination of his own depths."
Rimbaud originally distributed A Season In Hell to friends as a
self-published booklet, and soon afterward, at the age of nineteen,
quit poetry altogether. New Directions's edition was among the
first to be published in the U.S., and it quickly became a classic.
Rimbaud's famous poem "The Drunken Boat" was subsequently added to
the first paperbook printing. Allen Ginsberg proclaimed Arthur
Rimbaud as "the first punk" - a visionary mentor to the Beats for
both his recklessness and his fiery poetry. This new edition
proudly dons the original Alvin Lustig-designed cover, and a
introduction by another famous rebel - and now National Book
Award-winner - Patti Smith.
One of the world's most influential poets, Arthur Rimbaud
(1854-1891) is remembered as much for his volatile personality and
tumultuous life as he is for his writings, almost all of which he
produced before the age of twenty. Paul Schmidt's acclaimed
collection brings together his complete poetry, prose, and letters,
including "The Drunken Boat," "The Orphans' New Year," "After the
Flood," and "A Season in Hell." "Complete Works" is divided into
eight "seasons"--Childhood, the Open Road, War, the Tormented
Heart, the Visionary, the Damned Soul, a Few Belated Cowardices,
and the Man with the Wind at His Heels--that reflect the facets of
Rimbaud's life. Insightful commentary by Schmidt reveals the
courage, vision, and imagination of Rimbaud's poetry and sheds
light on one of the most enigmatic figures in letters.
The prose poems of the great French Symbolist, Arthur Rimbaud
(1854-1891), have acquired enormous prestige among readers
everywhere and have been a revolutionary influence on poetry in the
twentieth century. They are offered here both in their original
texts and in superb English translations by Louise Varese. Mrs.
Varese first published her versions of Rimbaud's Illuminations in
1946. Since then she has revised her work and has included two
poems which in the interim have been reclassified as part of
Illuminations. This edition also contains two other series of prose
poems, which include two poems only recently discovered in France,
together with an introduction in which Miss Varese discusses the
complicated ins and outs of Rimbaldien scholarship and the special
qualities of Rimbaud's writing. Rimbaud was indeed the most
astonishing of French geniuses. Fired in childhood with an ambition
to write, he gave up poetry before he was twenty-one. Yet he had
already produced some of the finest examples of French verse. He is
best known for A Season in Hell, but his other prose poems are no
less remarkable. While he was working on them he spoke of his
interest in hallucinations--"des vertiges, des silences, des
nuits." These perceptions were caught by the poet in a beam of
pellucid, and strangely active language which still lights up--now
here, now there--unexplored aspects of experience and thought.
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Selected Poems and Letters (Paperback)
Arthur Rimbaud; Translated by Jeremy Harding, John Sturrock; Introduction by Jeremy Harding, John Sturrock; Notes by …
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Arthur Rimbaud was one of the wildest, most uncompromising poets
of his age, although his brief literary career was over by the time
he was twenty-one when he embarked on a new life as a trader in
Africa. This edition brings together his extraordinary poetry and
more than a hundred of his letters, most of them written after he
had abandoned literature. A master of French verse forms, the young
Rimbaud set out to transform his art, and language itself, by a
systematic "disordering of all the senses," often with the aid of
alcohol and drugs. The result is a highly innovative, modern body
of work, obscene and lyrical by turns--a rigorous journey to
extremes.
Jeremy Harding and John Sturrock's new translation includes
Rimbaud's greatest verse, as well as his record of youthful
torment, A Season in Hell (1873), and letters that unveil the man
who turned his back on poetry.Includes a generous selection of
Rimbaud's major poetry followed by more than 100 of his
lettersContains the French text of the poems on facing
pagesIntroduction examines Rimbaud's two very different careers
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Rimbaud Complete (Paperback)
Arthur Rimbaud; Translated by Wyatt Mason; Edited by Wyatt Mason; Introduction by Wyatt Mason
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Enduring icon of creativity, authenticity, and rebellion, and the subject of numerous new biographies, Arthur Rimbaud is one of the most repeatedly scrutinized literary figures of the last half-century. Yet almost thirty years have elapsed without a major new translation of his writings. Remedying this state of affairs is Rimbaud Complete, the first and only truly complete edition of Rimbaud’s work in English, translated, edited, and introduced by Wyatt Mason.
Mason draws on a century of Rimbaud scholarship to choreograph a superbly clear-eyed presentation of the poet’s works. He arranges Rimbaud’s writing chronologically, based on the latest manuscript evidence, so readers can experience the famously teenaged poet’s rapid evolution, from the lyricism of “Sensation” to the groundbreaking early modernism of A Season in Hell.
In fifty pages of previously untranslated material, including award-winning early verses, all the fragmentary poems, a fascinating early draft of A Season in Hell, a school notebook, and multiple manuscript versions of the important poem “O saisons, ô chateaux,” Rimbaud Complete displays facets of the poet unknown to American readers. And in his Introduction, Mason revisits the Rimbaud myth, addresses the state of disarray in which the poet left his work, and illuminates the intricacies of the translator’s art.
Mason has harnessed the precision and power of the poet’s rapidly changing voice: from the delicate music of a poem such as “Crows” to the mature dissonance of the Illuminations, Rimbaud Complete unveils this essential poet for a new generation of readers.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Collected Poems (Paperback)
Arthur Rimbaud; Edited by Martin Sorrell
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'Rimbaud, the poet of revolt, and the greatest' Albert Camus
Rimbaud is the enfant terrible of French literature, the precocious
genius whose extraordinary poetry is revolutionary in its
visionary, hallucinatory content and its often liberated forms. He
wrote all his poems between the ages of about 15 and 21, after
which he turned his back on family, friends, and France to roam the
world. In his final years he was a trader in the Horn of Africa.
Out of the brief, colourful life and the poetry of sensory wildness
has been created the myth of Rimbaud, an enduring icon of youth,
rebellion, and freedom. But behind the myth lies a poetic adventure
of high ambition and painful rigour, poignant yet heroic. Rimbaud
is one of the greatest French poets of all times. This bilingual
edition provides all of Rimbaud's poems, with the exception of his
Latin verses and some small fragments. It also includes some of his
prose pieces, chosen because they offer a commentary on his poetic
concerns. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's
Classics has made available the widest range of literature from
around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's
commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a
wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions
by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text,
up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
"As soon as the idea of the Flood subsided, A hare stopped in the
clover and swinging flowerbells and said his prayer to the rainbow
through the spider's web . . ." Arthur Rimbaud's short career as a
poet came to a fiery close with The Illuminations. Innovative in
their juxtaposition of images and exploration of language, the
poems have inspired generations of poets. They retain their
avant-garde flavor more than a century after they were first
published. Five years in the making, this new translation by Keith
Miller transmits the vitality and freshness of Rimbaud's voice
while preserving fidelity to the originals. This dual-language
edition allows readers to compare the translation with the
original.
Incluido por Verlaine en su volumen de poetas malditos, Rimbaud
llevo hasta sus ultimas consecuencias el desequilibro de los
sentidos para emprender cualquier forma de amor, sufrimiento y
ternura. Esta edicion ofrece las "Primeras Prosas," las "Prosas
evangelicas" y "Una temporada en el Infierno," terminando con "Las
iluminaciones."
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Illuminations (Paperback)
Arthur Rimbaud; Translated by John Ashbery
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The modernist masterpiece that is Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations
has been given new life with the publication of John Ashbery's
"dazzling" (The Economist) new translation, widely hailed as one of
the literary events of the year. Presented with French text in
parallel and a preface by its translator, Ashbery's rendering
powerfully evokes the glittering, kaleidoscopic beauty of the
original
Arthur Rimbaud's "A Season in Hell" is a prose poem loosely divided
into nine parts. In one part of the poem the poet portrays quite
transparently his own relationship with French symbolist poet Paul
Verlaine. The two had a brief alcohol and drug fueled affair which
finally came to end when Verlaine shot Rimbaud in the wrist in a
drunken rage. "A Season in Hell," which has been referred to as a
pioneering example of modern symbolism, is included in this
collection along with "The Drunken Boat," a fragmented first-person
narrative which vividly describes the drifting and sinking of a
boat lost at sea. It is probably the best known work from the
representative selection of early poems by the writer presented
here in this volume. Also included in this edition is a selection
of poems from Rimbaud's masterpiece "Illuminations." What is most
remarkable about Rimbaud's poetry is that it was produced almost
entirely between the ages of seventeen and twenty, when Rimbaud
would abruptly give up writing entirely in favor of a more steady
working life. His writing he contended was a product of his
reckless lifestyle to which he was resolved to abandon.
This uncompleted suite of poems by French poet Arthur Rimbaud was
first published serially in the Paris literary review magazine "La
Vogue." The magazine published part of "Illuminations" from May to
June 1886. Paul Verlaine, Rimbaud's lover, suggested the
publication of these poems, written between 1873 and 1875, in book
form. All forty-two of the poems generally considered as part of
"Illuminations" are collected together here in this edition. Of
these forty-two poems almost all are in a prose poem format, the
two exceptions are "Seapiece" and "Motion," which are vers libre.
There is no universally defined order to the poems in
"Illuminations," while many scholars believe the order of the poems
to be irrelevant, this edition begins traditionally with "Apres Le
Deluge" or "After the Flood." Albert Camus hailed Rimbaud as "the
poet of revolt, and the greatest." The worth of this praise for
Rimbaud can be seen in "Illuminations," one of the most exemplary
works of his poetic talent.
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