Translating Rimbaud's Illuminations

Clive Scott offers translations of a selection of Rimbaud's prose poems - setting out to invest the poems with expanded potential by reshaping them and by inserting them into new expressive environments. At the same time, he proposes a redifinition of the relationship between literary translation and creative writing. He suggests that the translator's imagination can operate more effectively if it fully exploits the space of the page, if it adopts-tabular rather than linear ways of thinking.Scott, Clive is the author of 'Translating Rimbaud's Illuminations', published 2006 under ISBN 9780859897693 and ISBN 0859897699.