This Volume is beautifully illustrated. Unfortunately that is the best that could be said for it. The translation is a travesty, as Mathieu's takes it upon himself to express some of his own "artistic expressions" by inserting outdated and anachronistic euphemisms from the 60's! Shame on him for being so self-serving and egotistical to take on this poetry as though it were his own. I would compare his actions to vandalism!

This whole collection is a monument to irresponsible translation! Still, if you think this one is bad, stay even farther away from their editions of Baudelaire. Do they mean to tell us that the "New American" tradition in translation is to take a collection of poetic outcasts and write their own poems under the names of the masters?

Disregard the discaimer made by the translator that he only is trying to bring to us the true sentiments of Rimbaud. It is a mark of huburis to think that he knows better than Rimabaud what Rimbaud would say. If you want to see a real revolutionary poet in action, get a real translation of Rimbaud done in the scholarly tradition of translating the poets own words.

A successfull poet and translator once told me that using translation to voice your own poetic styles was cowardly, and I have always agreed with him.

I FOUND THE WORK OF ARTHUR RIMBAULD STIMULATING AND BEAUTIFUL THE MOVIE "TOTAL ECIPSE" MADE ME AWARE OF HIS WORK IT'S AMAZING WORK FOR ONE AS YOUNG AS 16 I'D RECOMEND IT TO SERIOUS POETS