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Title
Illuminations
Illuminations
Author
Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Rimbaud
format
Paperback / softback
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Carcanet Press
Carcanet Press
Language
English
English
UK Publication Date
20110626
20110626
Description
Click here to see this edition reissued as a Carcanet Classic (September, 2018)
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'.
Cover photograph: Constant Alexandre Famin, Fontainebleau (ca. 1864). Albumen print from glass negative, 13.25 x 10 inches.
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'.
Cover photograph: Constant Alexandre Famin, Fontainebleau (ca. 1864). Albumen print from glass negative, 13.25 x 10 inches.
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