Illuminations Common Life and memory constructed through shards

and memory constructed through shards of language cutting through time and space

characters and scenes traverse states of airlessness

In an unfolding of rhythms

Zijn verzamelde gedichten werden in 1993 uitgebracht onder de titel Lachen in een leeuw

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Illuminations Common Life and memory constructed through shardsArthur 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.