![]() In all of his poetry, Rimbaud tried to explain color to the blind, and was all at once, real and surreal, direct and abstract. With Illuminations, Rimbaud hoped to save the world from “all resonant and surging suffering in more intense music”, but also predicted “the clear song of new misfortunes”, and these contradictory statements sum up Illuminations: beautiful and ugly, hopeful and tragic. “What are the Illuminations?”, Ashbery asks in his introduction, and answers with, among other unknowable things, “a disordered collection of magic lantern slides”. The last line of To A Reason is “arriving from always, you’ll go away everywhere”, a possible explanation of Rimbaud’s exit from poetry. Deeper into Illuminations in To A Reason, Rimbaud addresses the world with “Change our fates, shoot down the plagues, beginning with time-the children sing to you, build wherever you can the substance of our fortunes and our wishes-they beg you”. Rimbaud, before 21, wrote in Childhood, “let someone finally rent me this tomb, whited with quicklime”, and “the lamp illuminates these newspapers that I’m a fool for rereading, these books of no interest”, lines that express a contempt for poetry, and a desire to become absolutely modern. After this Rimbaud’s prose becomes a hallucinatory, shape-shifting tale of his fractured life, which is the tale of the death of life under industrialization, and our own lives. One can imagine the Queen and Witch in the same body, as poetry itself, or the modern city Rimbaud loved and reviled. Near the end of After The Flood, Rimbaud tells us “…For since they subsided,-oh the precious stones shoveled under, and the full-blown flowers!-so boring! and the Queen, the Witch who lights her coals in the clay pot, will never want to tell us what she knows, and which we do not know”. The beginning (for Ashbery, since there is no known order) is After The Flood, a re-imagining of A Season In Hell’s precious stones. Illuminations begins where A Season In Hell left off, with Rimbaud abandoning poetry and describing the aftermath. Rimbaud wanted his prose to express a rational derangement of the senses, what Ashbery calls a “crystalline jumble”. He is now considered a saint to symbolists and surrealists, and his body of works, which include Le bateau ivre (1871), Une Saison. Ashbery and Rimbaud embrace abstraction, without compromise, and seek “absolute modernity”, which for Rimbaud was “acknowledging the simultaneity of all of life, the condition that nourishes poetry at every second”. Rimbaud died in Marseille in November of 1891, at the age of 37. ![]() Ashbery has been compared to Rimbaud since his first collection was published in 1956, his changes to the original are minimal and highlight Rimbaud’s own vivid imagery. Here Ashbery is faithful to the original text, presents the clearest ordering of the poems, and leaves out the cloudy, unnecessary biography that has dominated past translations. ![]() In Illuminations, Rimbaud bests Baudelaire, plants the seeds of surrealism, inspires symbolism, originates free verse in French, describes impossible, and takes us on a metaphorical and autobiographical walk into the future.Īshbery’s translation is a love letter to Rimbaud, and French culture. Camus hailed Rimbaud “a poet of revolt, and the greatest”, and in John Ashbery’s new translation, we finally get the greatest, complete version of Illuminations. OL16163700W Page_number_confidence 84.41 Pages 188 Ppi 300 Republisher_date 20200205142154 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 296 Scandate 20200204143923 Scanner his short life as a poet, Arthur Rimbaud created a new poetry by abandoning poetry. French Ashbery, John, 1927- Boxid IA1771316 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Col_number COL-609 Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Opera sa este extrem de expresiva, subtila, ingenioasa, fiind parca extrasa din adancul subconstientului sau framantat. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 08:02:15 Associated-names Rimbaud, Arthur, 1854-1891. Illuminations, collection of 40 prose poems and two free-verse poems by Arthur Rimbaud. Arthur Rimbaud, copilul de aur al simbolismului francez, a scris unele dintre cele mai remarcabile poezii si proze ale secolului al XIX-lea.
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