The Drunken Boat: Selected Writings
A new translation of the best and most provocative work by France's infamous rebel poet, in a bilingual edition Poet, prodigy, precursor, punk: the short, precocious, uncompromisingly rebellious career of the poet Arthur Rimbaud is one of the legends of modern literature. By the time he was twenty, Rimbaud had written a series of poems that are not only masterpieces in themselves but that forever transformed the idea of what poetry is. Without him, surrealism is inconceivable, and his influence is palpable in artists as diverse as Henry Miller, John Ashbery, Bob Dylan, and Patti Smith. In this essential volume, renowned translator Mark Polizzotti offers authoritative and inspired new versions of Rimbaud’s major poems and letters, including generous selection of Illuminations and the entirety of his lacerating confession A Season in Hell—capturing as never before not only the meaning but also the daredevil attitudes and incantatory rhythms that make Rimbaud’s works among the most perpetually modern of his or any other generation. This bilingual edition includes the original French versions of each poem.— Google Books
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CONTENTS Cover Biographical Notes Title Page Introduction: Heart of a Clown and Soles of Wind A Note on the Translation POEMS The Orphans' Gifts Sensation Ophelia The Hanged Man's Ball Dead of '92 First Evening Romance Evil Dream for Winter Sleeper in the Valley At the Green Tavern Cunning My Bohemia Evening Prayer Seven-Year-Old Poets Tortured Heart Paris Repopulates (Parisian Orgy) Jeanne-Marie's Hands The Sisters of Mercy Vowels The Lice-Pickers The Drunken Boat "What's it to us, heart of mine..." The Cassis River Shame Memory A SEASON IN HELL "Back then..." Bad Blood A Night of Hell Deliria I: The Foolish Virgin Deliria II: Alchemy of the Word Impossibility Lightning Morning Farewell ILLUMINATIONS After the Flood Childhood Tale Sideshow Being Beauteous Lives Departure Morning Intoxication Phrases Bridges City Vagabonds Mystic Dawn Ordinary Nocturne Anguish Metropolitan Youth Bottom H Devotion Genius SELECTED LETTERS, 1870-1875 To Théodore de Banville, May 24, 1870 To Georges Izambard, August 25, 1870 To Georges Izambard, September 5, 1870 To Georges Izambard, November 2, 1870 To Paul Demeny, April 17, 1871 To Georges Izambard, May 13, 1871 To Paul Demeny, May 15, 1871 To Paul Demeny, June 10, 1871 To Théodore de Banville, August 15, 1871 To Paul Demeny, August 28, 1871 To Paul Verlaine [fragments], September 1871 To Paul Verlaine [fragments], April 1872 To Ernest Delahaye, June 1872 To Ernest Delahaye, May 1873 To Paul Verlaine, July 4, 1873 To Paul Verlaine, July 5, 1873 Statement to the Police Commissioner, Brussels, July 10, 1873 To Jules Andrieu, April 16, 1874 To Ernest Delahaye, February [sic for March] 5, 1875 To his family, March 17, 1875 To Ernest Delahaye, October 14, 1875 Notes
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