Illuminations
Arthur Rimbaud
(Author)
John Ashbery
(Translator)
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Description
Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations reissued as a Carcanet Classic.
Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations, first published in 1886, changed the language of poetry. In John Ashbery the book has a translator whose virtuosic originality brings Rimbaud's visions alive. The `crystalline jumble' of Illuminations, Ashbery writes, is still emitting pulses of energy. `If we are absolutely modern - and we are - it's because Rimbaud commanded us to be.' Ashbery relays the kaleidoscopic dazzle of the original, a Splendide Hotel `built amid the tangled heap of ice floes and the polar night', where the Witch `will never want to tell us what she knows, and which we do not know'.Product Details
Price
£14.99
£14.24
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Publish Date
27 September 2018
Language
French
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781784106638
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