Rimbaud wrote his entire body of work between the ages of 16 and 19, then stopped writing forever and became a gunrunner in Africa. *A Season in Hell* is his self-conducted post-mortem; *Illuminations*, his visionary prose poems, compressed and deliberately disorienting. He defined the program: the poet as "seer" (voyant) who must derange all the senses to access hidden truth. Every avant-garde from Surrealism to punk invokes him.

The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.