Introduction / Harold Bloom
Une saison en enfer and the dialectics of damnation / John Porter Houston
Rimbaud's poem "L'eternité" / Hans-Jost Frey
Rimbaud's simplicity / Leo Bersani
The poetics of hallucination / Nathaniel Wing
Poetry without verse / Tzvetan Todorov
Interpretation and undecidability / Michael Riffaterre
Why France? / LeRoy C. Breunig
Hermeneutic models / Michael Riffaterre
Lettre I: the subject questioned / Karin J. Dillman
Rimbaud and the resistance to work / Kristin Ross.