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A Season in Hell & The Drunken Boat (Second Edition) (New Directions Paperbook)
A Season in Hell The Drunken Boat - Second Edition - New Directions Paperbook Author:Arthur Rimbaud A reissue of Rimbaud?s highly influential work, with a new preface by Patti Smith and the original 1945 New Directions cover design by Alvin lustig.New Directions is pleased to announce the relaunch of the long-celebrated bi- lingual edition of Rimbaud?s A Season In Hell & The Drunken Boat ? a personal poem of damnation as well as a plea to be r... more »eleased 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.« less