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Beyond the myth of the brilliant adolescent and the doomed poet, the enigma of his abandonment of writing and Europe, or his status as a modern classic, Arthur Rimbaud's poetry remains alive, offering inexhaustible ways of relating words to the world. In his early work, the Poesies, the stimulation of different poetic genres —from sociopolitical satire to penetrating observation of life and the capacity for self-analysis— generates an astonishing array of resources and merges with his mature style. After this sweeping and scattered period, Rimbaud composed two books of prose poetry, A Season in Hell and Illuminations, both in a completely new format, which opened one of the most fertile branches of modern lyric poetry, the least codified, the most open. In this Collected Works, the poet and critic Miguel Casado offers his definitive version of all of Rimbaud's poetry, the result of a lifelong engagement with Rimbaud's work, enriched by a lifetime of reading and reflection on a body of work that, a century and a half after its brief appearance, has lost none of its relevance. The challenge of this Collected Works remains the possibility of reading Arthur Rimbaud as a new poet, one always encountering him for the first time.