Arthur Rimbaud: Complete Works (Perennial Classics)
by Arthur Rimbaud
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Man, I love Rimbaud. I don't remember the first time I read his work. It was probably high school, sometime around the time I first read Rilke's Letters to a Young poet. By the time I had my most serious encounter with his work I'd already become familiar with his tabloid-esque life, the young doomed poet-warrior most of us heard about before we even read The Drunken Boat or A Season in Hell.
This edition has it all: the complete poetry and prose, superb new English trans...more
This edition has it all: the complete poetry and prose, superb new English trans...more
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Read in February, 2005
This all just blows my mind that most of this was written around the age of 17 and that he went on to live a life without poetry as a merchant or businessman or whatever it was before dying of old age and without the need to keep writing. How could he have walked away after producing so much in so little time?
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I'll find the proper translation, cause it's important for this one. But "A Season in Hell" has more useful info in it--at what, 22 pages?--than the entire work of many novelists. It's compressed radium waiting to explode in your sleep. "All these tears . . . and all the tears to come later, I hope!"
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Read in November, 2005
recommends it for:
Poetry students
The best collection of Rimbaud's work I've read. Presents several translations of his work and justifies/explains why and how the editor got to the one they chose. Also includes some really great excerpts from Rimbaud's school notebooks, poems and little blurbs, that you won't find anywhere else.
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Bob Dylan Fans
A 1960s Bob Dylan interview keyed me to Rimbaud and I thoroughly enjoyed the language of A Season in Hell and some of his earlier pieces. Rimbaud's off the wall use of language and description and the parallels to the madness of his personal life are evident throughout his poetry.
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Read in January, 1996
I first read his poems when I was in 9th grade. He isn't by any means the best poet that ever lived, but he is very identifiable for any confused teenager, considering most everything he wrote he wrote by the age of around 21.
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Read in January, 1981
Life is rugged, and poetry is a game practiced by moderns with nothing left to lose, and nothing to gain but the vision itself.
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after years of watching skate videos and listening to heavy metal, this book helped me use my brain again.
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Rimbaud's real life is more interesting than the things he wrote, but those are pretty good too.
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There is but one poet, and his name is Arthur Rimbaud. Everyone else is a waste of time.
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The first poet whose work I loved and really connected to. I was a teenager of course.
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Not all of his poems are great, but this is the best translation. (Paul Schmidt)
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Read in October, 2007
Muito bom, mas na verdade ainda não li tudo.
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avg rating (all editions): 4.36 (240 ratings) avg rating (this edition): 4.39 (118 ratings) number of reviews: 19popular shelves
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"I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still."
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