This is an English-language selection of Rimbaud's poems, gathering verse from his short writing life. It typically includes his early rhymed poems, written as a teenager, with their sharp views of war, church and respectable society, as well as nature poems and the famous visionary piece about a drunken boat adrift on the sea. Later, freer work shows him pushing language toward something stranger and more personal. The collection offers readers a clear way into his voice, which is youthful, angry, tender and astonishingly inventive.