{"product_id":"a-season-in-hell-the-drunken-boat","title":"A Season in Hell \u0026 The Drunken Boat","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\n\u003cp\u003eNew Directions is pleased to announce the relaunch of the long-celebrated bilingual 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRimbaud 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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew Directions, 2011\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSoftcover, 122 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8 x 5 inches\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"New Directions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41985663500368,"sku":"9780811219488","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0035\/4502\/files\/01_f6ebf9f4-8bfc-479b-8ab3-c35cf0de842b.jpg?v=1783547135","url":"https:\/\/mocastore.org\/products\/a-season-in-hell-the-drunken-boat","provider":"MOCA Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}