Description
Description
The modernist masterpiece that is Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations has been given new life with the publication of John Ashbery's "dazzling" (The Economist) new translation, widely hailed as one of the literary events of the year. Presented with French text in parallel and a preface by its translator, Ashbery's rendering powerfully evokes the glittering, kaleidoscopic beauty of the original
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
Meticulously faithful yet nimbly inventive...We are fortunate that John Ashbery has...brought to it such care and imaginative resourcefulness.--Lydia Davis "New York Times Book Review"
This is a landscape not only of the imagination, but of an imagination that is still affecting us profoundly.--Charles Rosen "New York Review of Books"
Rimbaud's epoch-making poems come through in all their bizarre originality, their brusque, unsettling freshness.--John Timpane "Philadelphia Inquirer"
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub date:
2012-10-29
Length:
176 pages
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