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[New York:] The Limited Editions Club,, 1986. Take these pages. They're for you. I tore them out of my notebook of a lost soul First edition thus, number 76 of 1,000 copies signed by the illustrator Robert Mapplethorpe and the translator Paul Schmidt in pencil. The text is printed in parallel French and English versions. Mapplethorpe's illustrations "display a certain visionary quality" (Classe, p. 1168). In the translator's introduction, the poet, actor, and librettist Paul Schmidt (1934-1999) comments that Rimbaud's poem "is a work of adolescent passion - not the passion of exuberance, but passion as suffering. It is the record of a failed attempt to create a new identity by creating a new world. Passion is universal, yet some particular facts may help to explain Rimbaud's feelings, to illuminate the smoky density, the nerve-edge screams, the sulphurous flicker of this little book" (p. vii). Schmidt also published a translation of Rimbaud's complete works in 1975. Originally self-published by… Read More