Rimbaud originally distributed A Season In Hell to friends as a self-published booklet, and soon afterward, at the age of nineteen, quit poetry altogether.
New Directions's edition was among the first to be published in the U.
, and it quickly became a classic.
Rimbaud's famous poem ``The Drunken Boat`` was subsequently added to the first paperbook printing.
Allen Ginsberg proclaimed Arthur Rimbaud as ``the first punk`` -- a visionary mentor to the Beats for both his recklessness and hi.
New Directions Publishing Corporation A season in hell & the drunken boat, paperback/arthur rimbaud
