A Season in Hell

Rimbaud, Arthur

ISBN 10: 1890650307 / ISBN 13: 9781890650308

Published by Omnidawn (edition 1), 2007

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Synopsis:

Using immediate vernacular that gives modern readers all the heady brilliance of Rimbaud's rebelliousness, this new translation contains the last poems written by one of the most influential poets before he abandoned poetry at the age of 20. Revell's essay, "Outrageous Innocence, Innocence Outraged," is offered as postscript, revealing the story of Rimbaud--his wildly creative youth, his years of breaking with traditional morality and decorum, his fame as the genius of French letters, and his early death. Analysis places these poems in the larger historical narrative of the literature of rebellious youth that has molded much of contemporary culture. Published with the original French version on facing pages, this translation will offer many the pleasure of reading this wild-child, long remembered as one of the masters of French poetry.

About the Authors:

Arthur Rimbaud is the author of Illuminations. He is considered the most outrageous and iconoclastic poet of French symbolism and one of the originators of free verse. Donald Revell is the author of Pennyweight Windows and My Mojave, which won the Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Prize; translator of two volumes of Guillaume Apollinaire's poetry; and poetry editor of Colorado Review. He is twice winner of the PEN Center USA Award for Poetry, a former fellow of the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim Foundations, has twice been granted fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment of the Arts, and is a professor of English and director of creative writing programs at the University of Utah. He lives in Las Vegas.

A volatile and peripatetic poet, the prodigy ARTHUR RIMBAUD wrote all of his poetry in a space of less than five years. His poem "Voyelles" invoked synesthesia, marking him as a founder of French symbolism, and his Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell) is considered one of the first works of free verse. His poetry was subconsciously inspired and highly suggestive; his persona was caustic and unstable. Though brilliant, during his life his peers regarded him as perverse, unsophisticated, and youthfully arrogant, and he died virtually indifferent to his own work. DONALD REVELL is Professor of English & Director of Creative Writing programs at UNLV. Thief of Strings is his tenth poetry collection, published by Alice James. Donald Revell's previous translations include The Illumninations by Arthur Rimbaud, and A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud, both of which were published by Omnidawn. A Season in Hell won the PSA translation award. His books of essays include Invisible Green: Selected Prose, published by Omnidawn. He serves as poetry editor of Colorado Review. Revell lives in the desert south of Las Vegas with his wife, poet Claudia Keelan, and their children Benjamin Brecht and Lucie Ming.

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Season in Hell
Publisher: Omnidawn (edition 1)
Publication Date: 2007
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good
Edition: 1.