A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat

Arthur Rimbaud

ISBN 10: 0811201856 / ISBN 13: 9780811201858

Published by New Directions, 1961

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Synopsis:

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.

Synopsis: New translation of Rimbaud's great, visionary poems.

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
Publisher: New Directions
Publication Date: 1961
Binding: mass_market
Condition: Very Good