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"This may be the most beautiful book in the world, lighted from within and somehow embodying all forms of literature." —Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times

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"Meticulously faithful yet nimbly inventive…We are fortunate that John Ashbery has…brought to it such care and imaginative resourcefulness." -- Lydia Davis - New York Times Book Review
"This is a landscape not only of the imagination, but of an imagination that is still affecting us profoundly." -- Charles Rosen - New York Review of Books
"Rimbaud’s epoch-making poems come through in all their bizarre originality, their brusque, unsettling freshness." -- John Timpane - Philadelphia Inquirer

Illuminations

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    A Paperback / softback by Arthur Rimbaud, John Ashbery

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      Publisher: WW Norton & Co
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 02/11/2012
      ISBN13: 9780393341829, 978-0393341829
      ISBN10: 0393341828

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      "This may be the most beautiful book in the world, lighted from within and somehow embodying all forms of literature." —Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times

      Trade Review
      "Meticulously faithful yet nimbly inventive…We are fortunate that John Ashbery has…brought to it such care and imaginative resourcefulness." -- Lydia Davis - New York Times Book Review
      "This is a landscape not only of the imagination, but of an imagination that is still affecting us profoundly." -- Charles Rosen - New York Review of Books
      "Rimbaud’s epoch-making poems come through in all their bizarre originality, their brusque, unsettling freshness." -- John Timpane - Philadelphia Inquirer

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