A Season In Hell
Author(s): Arthur Rimbaud; Louise Varese (Translator); Patti Smith (Introduction by)
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.
Product Information
Our greatest poet of revolt. --Albert Camus
General Fields
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- : W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- : W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- : 0.131542
- : 01 September 2011
- : 201mm X 132mm X 10mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : 144
- : 1011
- : Paperback
- : Arthur Rimbaud; Louise Varese (Translator); Patti Smith (Introduction by)