{"product_id":"illuminations-poem-by-arthur-rimbaud","title":"Illuminations\nPoem by Arthur Rimbaud","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-cel-widget=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent_feature_div\" data-csa-c-id=\"njxba5-bg7f5i-fi0nls-cqd0qf\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"If we are absolutely modern―and we are―it's because Rimbaud commanded us to be.\"―John Ashbery, from the preface\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in 1886, Arthur Rimbaud’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIlluminations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e?the work of a poet who had abandoned poetry before the age of twenty-one?changed the language of poetry. Hallucinatory and feverishly hermetic, it is an acknowledged masterpiece of world literature, still unrivaled for its haunting blend of sensuous detail and otherworldly astonishment. In Ashbery's translation of this notoriously elusive text, the acclaimed poet and translator lends his inimitable voice to a venerated classic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eW. H. Auden recognized the strong affinities between Ashbery's poetry and Rimbaud's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIlluminations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e in his 1956 introduction to Ashbery's first book, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSome Trees\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, noting that \"the imaginative life of the human individual stubbornly continues to live by the old magical notions.\" And it is here, in the \"crystalline jumble\" and \"disordered collection of magic lantern slides\" of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIlluminations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, as Ashbery writes in the Preface, that we can rediscover this essential lineage. \"Absolute modernity\" was for Rimbaud \"acknowledging the simultaneity of all of life, the condition that nourishes poetry at every second. [...] If we are absolutely modern?and we are?it's because Rimbaud commanded us to be.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAshbery's idiomatic and lyrical translations of these forty-four texts convey the originality of Rimbaud's vision to English-speaking readers of a new century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca:text textemphasis=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/a:text\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"productInfoTabExpanderHeader0\" class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\"\u003e\u003ca role=\"button\" data-action=\"a-expander-toggle\" class=\"a-declarative\" data-a-expander-toggle='{\"allowLinkDefault\":true, \"expand_prompt\":\"Leer más\", \"collapse_prompt\":\"Leer menos\"}'\u003e\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-collapse\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eLeer menos\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Book Lovers BD","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":55491634659619,"sku":null,"price":290.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":55491634692387,"sku":null,"price":420.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":55491634725155,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0954\/5872\/2083\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_31a1a711-48c5-48a0-bc7f-436265c0dc17.jpg?v=1787252181","url":"https:\/\/www.bookloversbd.shop\/products\/illuminations-poem-by-arthur-rimbaud","provider":"Book Lovers BD","version":"1.0","type":"link"}