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A Season in Hell (Paperback)
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Description
Using immediate vernacular that gives modern readers all the heady brilliance of Rimbaud's rebelliousness, this new translation contains the last poems written by one of the most influential poets before he abandoned poetry at the age of 20. Revell's essay, “Outrageous Innocence, Innocence Outraged,” is offered as postscript, revealing the story of Rimbaud—his wildly creative youth, his years of breaking with traditional morality and decorum, his fame as the genius of French letters, and his early death. Analysis places these poems in the larger historical narrative of the literature of rebellious youth that has molded much of contemporary culture. Published with the original French version on facing pages, this translation will offer many the pleasure of reading this wild-child, long remembered as one of the masters of French poetry.
About the Author
Arthur Rimbaud is the author of Illuminations. He is considered the most outrageous and iconoclastic poet of French symbolism and one of the originators of free verse. Donald Revell is the author of Pennyweight Windows and My Mojave, which won the Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Prize; translator of two volumes of Guillaume Apollinaire's poetry; and poetry editor of Colorado Review. He is twice winner of the PEN Center USA Award for Poetry, a former fellow of the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim Foundations, has twice been granted fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment of the Arts, and is a professor of English and director of creative writing programs at the University of Utah. He lives in Las Vegas.
Praise for A Season in Hell…
Winner of The Pen USA Translation Award for 2008
"Revell's method fits Rimbaud's near-madness. . . . This is an inspired new version of a strange, harsh classic." —Publishers Weekly
