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A 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. New Directions is pleased to announce the relaunch of the long-celebrated bi- lingual edition of Rimbaud�s A Season In Hell & The Drunken Boat � a personal poem of damnation as well as a plea to be released from �the examination of his own depths.� Rimbaud originally distributed A Season In Hell 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. 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.