A Season in Hell and The Illuminations

<b>"To each being, several <i>other</i> lives seemed due." -Arthur Rimbaud</b><br> <br> Having closely studied and admired the visionary masterpieces of 19th-century French poet Arthur Rimbaud for years, Christopher Bakka has translated them for himself. Born from a desire to deeply engage with the original French texts and to apprehend, as clearly as is possible, the words that Rimbaud wrote, these translations of <i>A Season in Hell</i> and <i>The Illuminations</i> are free from the wildly creative liberties in diction and syntax that make most translations of Rimbaud unreliable. Pure translation, is, of course, impossible, especially where poetry is concerned; devoted readers of Rimbaud, therefore, are encouraged to engage with the music and ambiguity of the poet's original French, presented here <i>en face</i>.