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
. 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.
Dustin Pearson is the author of three poetry collections: A Season in Hell with Rimbaud (BOA, 2022), A Family Is a House (C&R Press, 2019), and Millennial Roost (C&R Press, 2018). His poems have been featured in Bennington Review, Blackbird, Hobart, The Literary Review, The Nation, Poetry Northwest, Poem-a-Day, Saranac Review, TriQuarterly, Vinyl Poetry, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of the 2015 Katherine C. Turner Award and the 2019 John Mackay Shaw Award from the Academy of American Poets, as well as fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, and The Anderson Center at Tower View. . In 2020, a film adaptation of his poem “The Flame in Mother’s Mouth” won Best Collaboration at the Cadence Video Poetry Festival. Pearson holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Arizona State University and a M.A. and B.A. in English from Clemson University, where he specialized in Ethnic American literature. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in creative writing at Florida State University. He lives in Summerville, SC.
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