A Season in Hell & the Drunken Boat

New Directions is pleased to announce the relaunch of the long-celebrated bilingual 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 "the 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 "The Drunken Boat" was subsequently added to the first paperbook printing. Allen Ginsberg proclaimed Arthur Rimbaud as "the 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.

Author: Arthur Rimbaud
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 10/05/2011
Series: New Directions Paperbook #1211
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.33w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780811219488
2nd Edition