The Cahiers Series is published in association with The Center for Writers & Translators at the American University of Paris. The goal of this series is to make available new explorations in writing, in translating, and in the areas linking these two activities.


Cahier 4
Drunken Boats, Alan Jenkins

In between two new and previously unpublished poems, Alan Jenkins offers his refreshing translation of Rimbauds’ masterpiece: Le Bateau ivre. With images by Rimbaud, Verlaine, and Bill Pownall (whose work was a source of inspiration for the poems here), this cahier sails down several rivers, placid and turbulent, and finds there more than one drunken boat.