{"product_id":"9780811221030","title":"A Season in Hell \u0026 The Drunken Boat (Second Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA reissue of Rimbaud’s highly influential work, with a new preface by Patti Smith and the original 1945 New Directions cover design by Alvin lustig.\u003c\/p\u003e New Directions is pleased to announce the relaunch of the long-celebrated bi- lingual edition of Rimbaud’s \u003cem\u003eA Season In Hell \u0026amp; The Drunken Boat\u003c\/em\u003e — a personal poem of damnation as well as a plea to be released from “the examination of his own depths.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Rimbaud originally distributed \u003cem\u003eA Season In Hell\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079786774768,"sku":"9780811221030","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811221030_p0.jpg?v=1763739678","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811221030","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}