Le Bateau Ivre Et Autre Poemes, Paperback Book, By: Arthur Rimbaud

A black, E white, I red, U green, O blue. " It sounds like a nursery rhyme and it's magic. A fugue. A flash of beauty and mischief that this fire thief launches into the sky of poetry! Drunk with sensations, Rimbaud is like this boat which knows the dazzling of "bottomless nights" but also the disillusion of "heartbreaking dawn". Seeing, he creates a world where the Big Dipper is an inn, where the telegraph poles are a lyre with iron songs. Revolted, he goes, carrying within him "the sob of the Infamous, the clamor of the Accursed" and the smile tranquil of the sleeper of the valley. But in the end he escapes, at the same time angel, mage and vagabond, leaving at the age of twenty a dazzling work whose echoes continue today.