Arthur Rimbaud

New Directions is pleased to announce the relaunch of the long-celebrated bilingual edition of Rimbaud's A Season in Hell & The Drunken Boat—a personal poem of damnation as well as a plea to be released 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...

The prose poems of the great French Symbolist, Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891), have acquired enormous prestige among readers everywhere and have been a revolutionary influence on poetry in the twentieth century. They are offered here both in their original texts and in superb English translations by Louise Varese. Mrs. Varese first published her versions of Rimbaud's Illuminations in 1946. Since then,...