Illuminations

Name: Illuminations
Brand: CARCANET PRESS
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By: Arthur Rimbaud, John Ashbery (Translator)

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Paperback | 27 October 2018 | Edition Number 2

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176 Pages

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New edition

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21.5 x 13.6 x 1.5

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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 to life in English. The `crystalline jumble' of Illuminations, John 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's translation 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'.

Industry Reviews

'One of the strongest, most exuberant and closely engaged translations of Rimbaud's work.' - The Guardian; `More than a century after Rimbaud composed his Illuminations they are reborn in John Ashbery's magnificent translation. It is fitting that the major American poet since Hart Crane and Wallace Stevens should give us this noble version of the precursor of all three.' - Harold Bloom

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