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or dramatis personae set in time that evokes but frustrates narrative
Translated from the Spanish by Jeannine Pitas in a bilingual edition
“We drag histories behind us
numbered LXXII and LXXIII
the book features visual poems that predate the experiments of the Language poets
Illuminations Zong! or dramatis personae set inArthur Rimbaud (translation John Ashbery) The modernist masterpiece that is Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations has been given new life with the publication of John Ashbery's "dazzling" (The Economist) translation. Presented with French text in parallel and a preface by its translator, Ashbery's rendering powerfully evokes the glittering, kaleidoscopic beauty of the original.