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Illuminations

  • ISBN-13: 9781784106638
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET CLASSICS
  • By Arthur Rimbaud, Translated by John Ashbery
  • Price: AUD $37.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 27/10/2018
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 176 pages Weight: 220g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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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 alive. The `crystalline jumble' of Illuminations, 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 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'.
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