<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This may be the most beautiful book in the world, lighted from within and somehow embodying all forms of literature. --Susan Salter Reynolds, <em>Los Angeles Times</em><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>The modernist masterpiece that is Arthur Rimbaud's <em>Illuminations</em> has been given new life with the publication of John Ashbery's "dazzling" (<em>The Economist</em>) new translation, widely hailed as one of the literary events of the year. Presented with French text in parallel and a preface by its translator, Ashbery's rendering powerfully evokes the glittering, kaleidoscopic beauty of the original<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Meticulously faithful yet nimbly inventive...We are fortunate that John Ashbery has...brought to it such care and imaginative resourcefulness.--Lydia Davis "New York Times Book Review"<br><br>Rimbaud's epoch-making poems come through in all their bizarre originality, their brusque, unsettling freshness.--John Timpane "Philadelphia Inquirer"<br><br>This is a landscape not only of the imagination, but of an imagination that is still affecting us profoundly.--Charles Rosen "New York Review of Books"<br>
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