A Season in Hell & The Drunken Boat
Poetryby Arthur Rimbaud
Translated from French by Louise Varese
With a contribution by Patti Smith
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’ edition was among the first to be published in the U.S., and 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.
Paperback(published Oct, 05 2011)
- ISBN
- 9780811201858
- Price US
- 12.95
- Page Count
- 120
Ebook(published Oct, 05 2011)
- ISBN
- 9780811221030
- Price US
- 12.95