Arthur Rimbaud

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.

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Arthur Rimbauds Le Bateau ivre ist eines der bedeutendsten Langgedichte der Weltliteratur. Nur drei Tage, die ihn "in Trance" versetzten, reichten Paul Celan aus für das Meisterwerk seiner Übersetzung dieses Gedichtes ins Deutsche: kühn und eigen, und doch so nah am Text, wie es einer Nachdichtung nur möglich ist. Es war Celans Überzeugung, "daß mir hier ein wirklich einzigartiger Wurf geglückt ist". Zur Wiedergabe von Originaltext und Übertragung in direkter Gegenüberstellung treten aufschlußreiche Zeugnisse, vor allem die Verlagsbriefwechsel, Abbildungen und ein ausführliches Nachwort des Herausgebers.

First published in 1886, Arthur Rimbaud s Illuminations the work of a poet who had abandoned poetry before the age of twenty-one changed the language of poetry. Hallucinatory and feverishly hermetic, it is an acknowledged masterpiece of world literature, still unrivaled for its haunting blend of sensuous detail and otherworldly astonishment. In Ashbery's translation of this notoriously elusive text, the acclaimed poet and translator lends his inimitable voice to a venerated classic. W. H. Auden recognized the strong affinities between Ashbery's poetry and Rimbaud's Illuminations in his 1956 introduction to Ashbery's first book, Some Trees, noting that "the imaginative life of the human individual stubbornly continues to live by the old magical notions." And it is here, in the "crystalline jumble" and "disordered collection of magic lantern slides" of Illuminations, as Ashbery writes in the Preface, that we can rediscover this essential lineage. "Absolute modernity" was for Rimbaud "acknowledging the simultaneity of all of life, the condition that nourishes poetry at every second. ...] If we are absolutely modern and we are it's because Rimbaud commanded us to be."Ashbery's idiomatic and lyrical translations of these forty-four texts convey the originality of Rimbaud's vision to English-speaking readers of a new century.This slipcased edition of the new translation is limited to 100 copies, signed and numbered by Ashbery; it includes a 5 x 7 Giclee print, based on Ashbery s collage Promontory, also signed and numbered.

'Rimbaud, the poet of revolt, and the greatest' Albert Camus Rimbaud is the enfant terrible of French literature, the precocious genius whose extraordinary poetry is revolutionary in its visionary, hallucinatory content and its often liberated forms. He wrote all his poems between the ages of about 15 and 21, after which he turned his back on family, friends, and France to roam the world. In his final years he was a trader in the Horn of Africa. Out of the brief, colourful life and the poetry of sensory wildness has been created the myth of Rimbaud, an enduring icon of youth, rebellion, and freedom. But behind the myth lies a poetic adventure of high ambition and painful rigour, poignant yet heroic. Rimbaud is one of the greatest French poets of all times. This bilingual edition provides all of Rimbaud's poems, with the exception of his Latin verses and some small fragments. It also includes some of his prose pieces, chosen because they offer a commentary on his poetic concerns. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Die schönsten Gedichte von Rimbaud in repräsentativer Auswahl und in einer zweisprachiger Ausgabe.

Den moderne poesis enfant terrible, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91), frembragte de fleste af sine mesterværker, før han blev tyve. ”Illuminationer” blev angiveligt skrevet mellem 1871-78 og blev første gang trykt i tidsskriftet La Vogue i 1886. Disse prosadigte, toogfyrre i alt, med deres overraskende metaforer som for eksempel »den gyldne solnedgangs tungsindige storvask«, bryder med den dengang herskende poetiks regler ved at lade det banale, vulgære og grusomme indgå en forbindelse med det sublime. ”Illuminationer” er et forsøg på at integrere verden som en total vision, det ultimative billede af alt, hvad der er til, eller som kan tænkes at være til, i en alkymistisk proces, hvor poeten også sætter sit eget jeg i spil. Lyrikeren Erik Knudsen har på imponerende vis gendigtet Rimbauds prosadigte ”Illuminationer”. Lars Bonnevie, Weekendavisen, skrev blandt andet følgende om oversættelsen: ”Man mærker tydeligt strømmen passere på en kongenial måde mellem Knudsen og Rimbaud (…) 'Illuminationer' er indgangsporten til den moderne poesi, herunder også til den modernisme, som den tidlige Erik Knudsen selv var inspireret af, og de farvelagte billeder står friske og prægnante i hans gendigtning, som om de var lavet i dag. Svimlende smukt og grænseløst foruroligende.”

Translated, edited and with an Introduction by Wyatt Mason "The definitive translation for our time."-Edward Hirsch From Dante's Inferno to Sartre's No Exit, writers have been fascinated by visions of damnation. Within that rich literature of suffering, Arthur Rimbaud's A Season in Hell-written when the poet was nineteen-provides an astonishing example of the grapple with self. As a companion to Rimbaud's journey, readers could have no better guide than Wyatt Mason. One of our most talented young translators and critics, Mason's new version of A Season in Hell renders the music and mystery of Rimbaud's tale of Hell on Earth with exceptional finesse and power. This bilingual edition includes maps, a helpful chronology of Rimbaud's life, and the unfinished suite of prose poems, Illuminations. With A Season in Hell, they cement Rimbaud's reputation as one of the foremost, and most influential, writers in French literature.

A phenomenonally precicious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and exhilarating poet. During his brief 5-year reign as the enfant terrible of French literature he produced an extraordinary body of poems that range from the exquisite to the obsene, while simultaneously living a life of dissolute excess with his lover and fellow poet, Verlaine. At the age of 21, he abandonned poetry and travelled across Europe before settling in Africa as an arms trader. This edition sets the two sides of Rimbaud side by side with a sparkling translation of his most exhilarating poetry and a generous selection of the letters from the harsh and colourful period of his life as a colonial trader.

Enduring icon of creativity, authenticity, and rebellion, and the subject of numerous new biographies, Arthur Rimbaud is one of the most repeatedly scrutinized literary figures of the last half-century. Yet almost thirty years have elapsed without a major new translation of his writings. Remedying this state of affairs is Rimbaud Complete, the first and only truly complete edition of Rimbaud's work in English, translated, edited, and introduced by Wyatt Mason. Mason draws on a century of Rimbaud scholarship to choreograph a superbly clear-eyed presentation of the poet's works. He arranges Rimbaud's writing chronologically, based on the latest manuscript evidence, so readers can experience the famously teenaged poet's rapid evolution, from the lyricism of "Sensation" to the groundbreaking early modernism of A Season in Hell. In fifty pages of previously untranslated material, including award-winning early verses, all the fragmentary poems, a fascinating early draft of A Season in Hell, a school notebook, and multiple manuscript versions of the important poem "O saisons, chateaux," Rimbaud Complete displays facets of the poet unknown to American readers. And in his Introduction, Mason revisits the Rimbaud myth, addresses the state of disarray in which the poet left his work, and illuminates the intricacies of the translator's art. Mason has harnessed the precision and power of the poet's rapidly changing voice: from the delicate music of a poem such as "Crows" to the mature dissonance of the Illuminations, Rimbaud Complete unveils this essential poet for a new generation of readers.

Arthur Rimbauds prosabok En tid i helvetet. Arthur Rimbaud är en av litteraturhistoriens stora legender och själva prototypen för allas uppfattning om poeten som geni. Han skapade hela sitt livsverk mellan 16 och 21 års ålder. Därefter vände han litteraturen ryggen och gav sig ut på långa resor. Han dog 1891, efter ett hårt liv med många strapatser, endast 37 år gammal.

Arthur Rimbaud, einer der wortgewaltigsten und bis heute meistgelesenen Dichter Frankreichs, leitete mit freien Versen und einer umfassenden Revolte gegen die Tradition die lyrische Moderne ein. In dem berühmten symbolistischen Dreigestirn Mallarm?-Verlaine-Rimbaud war er sicherlich der Radikalste - die Bewegung des Surrealismus ist ohne ihn nicht zu denken. Diese zweisprachige Ausgabe bietet eine Übertragung, die sich in ihrer Klarheit von den bisherigen deutschen Traditionen des Rimbaud-Übersetzens (expressionistischem Pathos wie modernistischer Auflösung der Form) gleichermaßen abhebt. Enthalten sind sämtliche Gedichte Rimbauds, die Zyklen >Une saison en enfer< und >Illuminations

The weird combination of craziness, immaturity, intuition and insight, obscenity and remorse . . . that marks Rimbaud's work." —Martin Kanes Professor Emeritus of French and Humanities University of New York " . . . [the vers nouveaux are] matchlessly beautiful . . . This is Rimbaud cast in the language of Twain and Whitman!" —Bertrand Mathieu Author of Orpheus in Brooklyn Translator of A Season in Hell and Illuminations "The punk Prometheus comes to life and sings. Les Corbeaux works as never before . . . I am impressed by the confident English poems made from early Rimbaud . . . " —Ethan Fischer, Antietam Review Cover illustration by Alexia Montibon Author Biography: Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891), "a prodigious and prodigal adolescent," composed his entire body of work between the ages of 15 and 19. He took poetry "beyond literature." The latter half of his life was spent in Africa as a trader in coffee,hides, ivory, and guns. He died in Marseilles at age 37,on his way back to Africa. Translator Dennis J. Carlile (b. 1946) first encountered the poetry of Rimbaud at a summer concert in 1965 or 1966 where tenor Charles Bressler sang Benjamin Britten's Les Illuminations. Mr. Carlile is the author of several plays, among them Carved In the Fog, Delmore At The Last, and JUMP! The Madness of Nijinsky, written for Alexander Jones.