The Illuminations

With perfect pitch for contemporary audiences, this new translation offers all the immediacy, hallucinatory surrealism, and wit that secured Arthur Rimbaud's esteemed position. As a major poet renowned for his strangely seductive power and innocence, Rimbaud was a dangerous and exhilarating force whose break with literary forms and conventions is aptly displayed in this volume. Published with the French on facing pages and an insightful afterword, this compilation plunges into the heart of Rimbaud's mysterious, revelatory beauty. This is a lucid and lively translation of a seminal work that remains essential and relevant to this day.

Arthur Rimbaud is considered the most outrageous and iconoclastic 19th-century poet of French symbolism and one of the originators of free verse. Donald Revell is a professor of English and the director of creative writing at the University of Nevada–Las Vegas. The winner of numerous awards, he is a former fellow of the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim foundations, the former editor-in-chief of Denver Quarterly, and a two-time poetry fellow with the National Endowment for the Arts. He is the poetry editor of Colorado Review, the author of Invisible Green, and the translator of Rimbaud's A Season in Hell. He lives in Las Vegas.

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