Festivals of Patience: The Verse Poems of Arthur Rimbaud


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Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Translated by Brian Kim Stefans. Poet of logical revolts, of sexual freedom, inveterate modernist, Symbolist, and inspiration to beatniks, conceptual artists and punks, Arthur Rimbaud wrote some of the most enduring poems of world literature. Here is a collection of all of his poems in verse, in a new English translation by American poet Brian Kim Stefans. With Rimbaud's sense of song craft in mind, Stefans has retained the French meters in his English versions. He is the first to have done this. The book opens with a Latin poem that Rimbaud wrote more than a year before his first known French poem, and it ends with a short poem he wrote a few years after leaving Paris, one which became a touchstone for Surrealist Andre Breton.

Brian Kim Stefans sets us ablaze with his astonishing new Rimbaud, proving it takes a worldly, genius poet to translate another. This book is a masterpiece -- CA Conrad



Author: Arthur Rimbaud
Publisher: Kenning Editions
Published: 05/01/2021
Pages: 392
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781734317619
ISBN10: 1734317612
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | LGBTQ+

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