A Season in Hell with Rimbaud

First printing: 2,000 copies.

A Season in Hell with Rimbaud is Dustin Pearson’s third poetry collection. His previous two collections, A Family Is a House and Millennial RoostIn the trend of Silvia Garcia-Moreno’s Mexican Gothic and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Sansei and Sensibilities, Dustin Pearson reframes the Western literary canon in a diverse retelling of the travelogue-through-Hell genre from the perspective of a Black American poet

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Along with its literary influences, A Season in Hell with RimbaudIn 2019, The RootThe title poem, A Season in Hell with Rimbaud, won a 2021 Pushcart Prize. Another poem in the collection, Lying Down, was featured in the January 27, 2021 issue of The NationPearson served as the editor of Hayden’s Ferry ReviewStrong academic appeal for Black studies, linguistics, English/European literature, African American literature, and comparative literature departments.