A Season in Hell

Arthur Rimbaud (trans. Louise Varese)

Rimbaud originally distributed A Season In Hell to friends as a self-published booklet, and soon afterward, at the age of nineteen, quit poetry altogether. Allen Ginsberg proclaimed Arthur Rimbaud as “the first punk” — a visionary mentor to the Beats for both his recklessness and his fiery poetry. This edition proudly dons the original Alvin Lustig designed cover, and a introduction by another famous rebel: Patti Smith.