martes, junio 06, 2006

A Translation of Arthur Rimbaud's Départ

Départ

Assez vu. La vision s'est rencontrée à tous les airs.
Assez eu. Rumeurs des villes, le soir, et au soleil, et toujours.
Assez connu. Les arrêts de la vie. — Ô Rumeurs et Visions!
Départ dans l'affection et le bruit neufs!


Departure

Seen enough. Vision met in every air.
Had enough. Murmurs of cities, evening, and in the sun, and always.
Learned enough. Life's stops. O Sound and Vision!
Depart in new affection and new noise.


Translated by Andrew Haley


Arthur Rimbaud est né à Charleville, le 20 octobre 1854, fils d'un soldat et d'une paysanne. Il a écrit ses premiers vers, en latin, à l'âge de treize ans. En 1870, il a fugué à Paris, où il a comencé sa tumultueuse carrière poétique que durait jusqu'à son départ vers l'Indoésie et finalement à l'Afrique, en 1876. Avant ce disparition mystérieuse, il avait écrit plusieurs poèmes qui restent jusqu'aujourd'hui comme des modèles exemplaires de l'innovation poétique, entre eux Le Bateau ivre et les livres Une Saison en Enfer et Illuminations dans lequel Départ est trouvé. Rimbaud est mort le 9 mai 1891.

Arthur Rimbaud was born in Charleville, France, on October 20, 1854. The son of soldier and a peasant, he wrote his first poems, in Latin, at the age of thirteen. In 1870, he ran away to Paris, where he began a tumultuous literary career that lasted until 1876, when he left France for Indonesia and, eventually, Africa. Before this mysterious disapperance, Rimbaud wrote numerous poems that remain exemplary models of poetic innovation. Among them are The Drunken Boat and the books A Season in Hell and Illuminations, in which Départ appears. Rimbaud died May 9, 1891.

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Zone Magazine dijo...

Zone Magazine's sources tell us that acclaimed poet Donald Revell has translated Rimbaud's A Season in Hell. The book, published by Omnidawn Corporation, is due out in April, 2007. Preorders are available through Canadian Amazon. Revell has already translated much of Apollinaire and we are excited to see the results of this new project.