A review by benliamc
Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud, Louise Varèse

5.0

I've been reading this book in little bursts for about three months, trying to savor the immensity of its beauty, rationing out bursts of its ephemera, giving myself a controlled stream of the languid prose. Rimbaud does things with language that no one else has ever done. It often feels like riding atop a rocket ship or surfing a tsunami to find moments that make no conventional sense but interlock in discourse. A perfect book.