With perfect pitch for contemporary audiences this new translation offers allthe immediacy hallucinatory surrealism and wit that secured Arthur Rimbaudsesteemed... » 

With perfect pitch for contemporary audiences this new translation offers allthe immediacy hallucinatory surrealism and wit that secured Arthur Rimbaudsesteemed position. As a major poet renowned for his strangely seductive powerand innocence Rimbaud was a dangerous and exhilarating force whose break withliterary forms and conventions is aptly displayed in this volume. Publishedwith the French on facing pages and an insightful afterword this compilationplunges into the heart of Rimbauds mysterious revelatory beauty. This is alucid and lively translation of a seminal work that remains essential andrelevant to this day. «