A Season in Hell & The Drunken Boat (English and French Edition)

New Directions is pleased to announce the relaunch of the long-celebrated bi- lingual edition of Rimbaud'¬"s A Season In Hell & The Drunken Boat '¬ ; a personal poem of damnation as well as a plea to be released from '¬Sthe examination of his own depths.'¬ Rimbaud originally distributed A Season In Hell 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 '¬SThe Drunken Boat'¬ was subsequently added to the first paperbook printing. Allen Ginsberg proclaimed Arthur Rimbaud as '¬Sthe 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 a introduction by another famous rebel '¬ ; and now National Book Award'¬ ;winner '¬ ; Patti Smith.