{"title":"Arthur Rimbaud","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArthur Rimbaud\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a compelling journey through intense poetic exploration and visionary expression. His works, such as \u003cem\u003eA Season in Hell\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Drunken Boat\u003c\/em\u003e, delve into themes of rebellion, transformation, and the limits of language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e will find Rimbaud’s poetry both challenging and illuminating, a blend of vivid imagery and profound emotional depth that continues to influence modern literature and art.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-season-in-hell-the-drunken-boat-by-arthur-rimbaud-9780811219488","title":"A Season in Hell \u0026 The Drunken Boat","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew Directions is pleased to announce the relaunch of the long-celebrated bilingual edition of Rimbaud's \u003cem\u003eA Season in Hell \u0026amp; The Drunken Boat\u003c\/em\u003e—a personal poem of damnation as well as a plea to be released from \"the examination of his own depths.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRimbaud originally distributed \u003cem\u003eA Season in Hell\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Drunken Boat\u003c\/em\u003e was subsequently added to the first paperback printing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAllen 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 includes an introduction by another famous rebel—and now National Book Award-winner—Patti Smith.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47383555899628,"sku":"9780811219488","price":28.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/22578843482476.jpg?v=1773375192"},{"product_id":"illuminations-by-arthur-rimbaud-9780811201841","title":"Illuminations","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMrs. Varese first published her versions of Rimbaud's \u003cem\u003eIlluminations\u003c\/em\u003e in 1946. Since then, she has revised her work and has included two poems which in the interim have been reclassified as part of \u003cem\u003eIlluminations\u003c\/em\u003e. This edition also contains two other series of prose poems, which include two poems only recently discovered in France, together with an introduction in which Miss Varese discusses the complicated ins and outs of Rimbaldien scholarship and the special qualities of Rimbaud's writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRimbaud was indeed the most astonishing of French geniuses. Fired in childhood with an ambition to write, he gave up poetry before he was twenty-one. Yet he had already produced some of the finest examples of French verse. He is best known for \u003cem\u003eA Season in Hell\u003c\/em\u003e, but his other prose poems are no less remarkable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhile he was working on them, he spoke of his interest in hallucinations—\"des vertiges, des silences, des nuits.\" These perceptions were caught by the poet in a beam of pellucid, and strangely active language which still lights up—now here, now there—unexplored aspects of experience and thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47424346554604,"sku":"9780811201841","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780811201841.jpg?v=1774768635"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/arthur-rimbaud.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}