Author: Rimbaud, Arthur, Smith, Patti, Varese, Louise
Literature & literary studies
Published on 4 October 2011 by New Directions Publishing Corporation in the United States.
Paperback | 112 pages
206 x 147 x 9 | 126g
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.