Translated by Mark Polizzotti (New York Review Books, paperback)
Publication Date: July 26, 2022
Publisher Marketing: A new translation of the best and most provocative work by France’s infamous rebel poet.
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.
This new selection represents about half the major verse poems, half the Illuminations, and the entirety of A Season in Hell, along with most of the known letters by Rimbaud up to 1875.
