Bibliograph

The drunken boat, selected writings, Arthur Rimbaud ; edited, translated, and with an introduction and notes by Mark Polizzotti

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The drunken boat, selected writings, Arthur Rimbaud ; edited, translated, and with an introduction and notes by Mark Polizzotti

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The drunken boat

Oclc number

11261879108

Responsibility statement

Arthur Rimbaud ; edited, translated, and with an introduction and notes by Mark Polizzotti

Series statement

New York Review Books poets

Sub title

selected writings

Summary

"Poet, prodigy, precursor, punk: the short, precocious, uncompromisingly rebellious career of the poet Arthur Rimbaud is one of the legends of modern literature. By the time he was twenty, Rimbaud had written a series of poems that are not only masterpieces in themselves but that forever transformed the idea of what poetry is. Without him, surrealism is inconceivable, and his influence is palpable in artists as diverse as Henry Miller, John Ashbery, Bob Dylan, and Patti Smith. In this essential volume, renowned translator Mark Polizzotti offers authoritative and inspired new versions of Rimbaud's major poems and letters, including generous selection of Illuminations and the entirety of his lacerating confession A Season in Hell - capturing as never before not only the meaning but also the daredevil attitudes and incantatory rhythms that make Rimbaud's works among the most perpetually modern of his or any other generation"--, Provided by publisher

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