A Season in Hell by Trs Rimbaud Arthur Donald Revell
In this new translation of Arthur Rimbaud--illustrious among the 19th-century symbolists and one of the most influential poets upon the modern mind--Donald Revell captures the child-like wonder and tortured, revelatory despair of these poems, which changed, in so many ways, how we think of what a poem can say and mean. Revell's choice of a most immediate vernacular gives the modern reader all the heady brilliance in Rimbaud's rebelliousness. Yet, as Revell explains in his essay Outrageous Innocence, Innocence Outraged, which is offered as afterword in this translation of A Season in Hell, Rimbaud's rebellious sensuality was redolent with the oracular. Revell's essay offers the story of Rimbaud--his wildly creative youth, his years of breaking with all traditions of morality and decorum, his fame as the genius of French letters who is identified as one of the creators of free verse because of his rhythm experiments in prose poems. And Revell's essay places these poems in the larger historical narrative of the literature of rebellious youth that has molded much of our contemporary culture. Published with the French on facing pages, this translation will open many readers to the pleasure of reading this wild child who was remembered after his death as one of the masters of French poetry.
Winner of The Pen USA Translation Award for 2008 "Revell's method fits Rimbaud's near-madness.. This is an inspired new version of a strange, harsh classic." -- Publishers Weekly
Arthur Rimbaud composed some of the most enduring poetry in global literature. He was a poet of logical revolts, sexual liberation, ardent modernist, Symbolist, and inspiration to beatniks, conceptual artists, and punks. From 1870 and 1875, he worked for only five years, during which time he penned his most famous prose poetry, Une Saison en enfer (A SEASON IN HELL, Green Landtern Publishing, 2010) and Illuminations. FESTIVALS OF PATIENCE: THE VERSE POEMS OF ARTHUR RIMBAUD (Kenning Editions, 2021) is his first book.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781890650308 |
| ISBN 10 | 1890650307 |
| Title | A Season in Hell |
| Author | Trs Rimbaud Arthur Donald Revell |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Omnidawn Publishing |
| Year published | 2007-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 104 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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