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Book Description: W. W. Norton & Company 8/29/2011, 2011. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Slipcased and Number. 0393081842 LIKE NEW/UNREAD!!! Text is Clean and Unmarked! --Be Sure to Compare Seller Feedback and Ratings before Purchasing-- Has a small black line on bottom/exterior edge of pages. **Heavier books will require additional postage for International**. Bookseller Inventory # NORHCM(MICK)0393081842

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Book Description: New York City, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011. Hardcover. Book Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 180 pages. Published in 2011. New Translation of the poet's masterpiece. One of John Ashbery's crowning achievements as poet, translator, and artist. Limited Slipcased Edition of 100 numbered and signed copies. Should not be confused with and is completely superior to the regular trade edition. A stunningly beautiful production by John Ashbery and Quemadura: Regular-sized volume format. Metallic-silver cloth boards with gilt titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Text by Arthur Rimbaud (presented in the French original on the left-hand page) and translation by John Ashbery (presented on the right). 5 X 7 inch Giclee print of Ashbery's original collage piece, "Promontory", tipped-in on the back. Cream cloth slipcase. Printed on archival cream stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ, which enlarges "Promontory", as issued. Presents in a stupendous Limited Edition format the definitive new translation by John Ashbery of Arthur Rimbaud's "Les Illuminations". The 44 prose-poems of "Illuminations" created Modernism, changed the language of poetry forever, and remains the most-beloved Modernist masterpiece to this day. If any artist or writer deserves, in its purest form, to be called The Avatar, it is unquestionably Rimbaud. "An extraordinary and moving experience. A great monument of modern literature in a rendering that is a convincing and continuous pleasure" (Charles Rosen). "If we are absolutely modern - and we are - it's because Rimbaud commanded us to be" (John Ashbery). "He is affection and the future, strength and love that we, standing amid rage, see passing in the storm-rent sky, and on the banners of ecstasy. His body! The dreamed-of release, the shattering of grace crossed with new violence!" ("Genie", Rimbaud's sensual rendition of Jesus Christ, as translated by Ashbery). An absolute "must-have" title for Arthur Rimbaud and John Ashbery collectors. This copy is one of the Limited Slipcased Edition, indicated and numbered as such in pencil on the Back Limitation Page. It comes with an original Giclee print of "Promontory" that is very prominently and beautifully numbered, dated, and signed in pencil on recto by the poet/translator/artist: "_100 John Ashbery 2011". Please note that Ashbery does not "double-sign" Limited Editions; he signed the print (which he created only for this edition and is tipped into the book), not the book itself. This edition is now highly collectible. This is one of very few copies still available online and has absolutely no flaws, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. Regarded by Harold Bloom as the greatest American poet of our time. Winner of every major American poetry prize as well as the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Robert Frost Medal. One of the greatest living poet/translator/artists. A flawless collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOHN ASHBERY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0393081842. Signed by Author. Bookseller Inventory # 16761

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