Description
Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations, first published in 1886, changed the language of poetry and is here reissued as a Carcanet Classic. John Ashbery's virtuosically original translation brings Rimbaud's visions alive. Ashbery describes the book's “crystalline jumble” as still emitting pulses of energy: “If we are absolutely modern—and we are—it’s because Rimbaud commanded us to be.” His translation conveys the kaleidoscopic dazzle of the original, from a Splendide Hotel “built amid the tangled heap of ice floes and the polar night” to the Witch who “will never want to tell us what she knows, and which we do not know.”
Information
Author: Rimbaud Arthur
Language: English
Publication date: September 27, 2018
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books
Type: Paperback book
Pages: 176
ISBN/EAN: 9781784106638