"Wyatt Mason's translation of Rimbaud's letters is a swashbuckler
of a book, nothing less than a resurrection of a remarkable life.
As such, it is a worthy companion to Mason's fine translation of
the poems. No admirer of Rimbaud will want to be without it."
--Arthur Goldhammer, translator of more than eighty books from the
French
"These letters, together with the poems, provide as direct a record
as possible of what the archetypal bohemian boy-genius did with his
gift. They brim with curiosity, ambition, spite, self-pity, and a
giant talent; his art is as impervious to time as that of Catullus
or Heine. Thanks to Wyatt Mason's masterly translations, Rimbaud
has, after a century and a half, recovered his gift." --Askold
Melnyczuk, author of "What Is Told" and "Ambassador of the Dead"
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