Rimbaud, Arthur ; Smith, Patti ; Varèse, Louise – A Season in Hell & The Drunken Boat (English and French Edition) – Paperback
A Season in Hell & The Drunken Boat (English and French Edition)
Author: Rimbaud, Arthur ; Smith, Patti ; Varèse, Louise
Publication Date: 10/05/2011
Format: Paperback
New Directions is pleased to announce the relaunch of the long-celebrated bi- lingual 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.
This new translation captures the tone and rhythm of Rimbaud’s language as well as the quality of his thought.
