{"product_id":"the-collected-poems-of-edouard-glissant-paperback-softback-9780816641956","title":"The Collected Poems of Édouard Glissant (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816641956","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Collected Poems of Édouard Glissant\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eÉdouard Glissant (Author), Jeff Humphries (Edited by), Melissa Manolas (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816641956\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 11 June 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.8 cm, 0.42 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The magnificent work of one of the most important contemporary novelists, essayists, and poets in the field of what we in Europe and North America call postcolonial literature.\"-\u003ci\u003eAmerican Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Reading or re-reading these texts, published over half a century, one is struck by the power of this poetry, the extraordinary persistence in its original inspiration and the manner in which it announces and then exemplifies the theories developed in \u003ci\u003ePoetics of Relation\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eCaribbean Discourse\u003c\/i\u003e.\"-\u003ci\u003eLiterature and Arts of the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe complete poems of the two-time finalist for the Nobel Prize in Literature, available in English for the first time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This volume collects and translates-most for the first time-the nine volumes of poetry published by \u0026amp;Eacute;douard Glissant, a poet, novelist, and critic increasingly recognized as one of the great writers of the twentieth century. The poems bring to life what Glissant calls “an archipelago-like reality,” partaking of the exchanges between Europe and its former colonies, between humans and their geographies, between the poet and the natural world. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReciting and re-creating histories of the African diaspora, Columbus’s “discovery” of the New World, the slave trade, and the West Indies, Glissant underscores the role of poetic language in changing both past and present irrevocably. As translator Jeff Humphries writes in his introduction, Glissant’s poetry embraces the aesthetic creed of the French symbolists MallarmÉ and Rimbaud (“The poet must make himself into a seer”) and aims at nothing less than a hallucinatory experience of imagination in which the differences among poem, reader, and subject dissolve into one immediate present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in Martinique in 1928, influenced by the controversial Martinican poet\/politician AimÉ CÉsaire, and educated at the Sorbonne in Paris, \u0026amp;Eacute;douard Glissant has emerged as one of the most influential postcolonial theorists, novelists, playwrights, and poets not only in the Caribbean but also in contemporary French letters. He has twice been a finalist for the Nobel Prize in Literature as well as the recipient of both the Prix Renaudot and the Prix Charles Veillon in France. His works include \u003ci\u003ePoetics of Relation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCaribbean Discourse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFaulkner Mississippi\u003c\/i\u003e, and the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Ripening\u003c\/i\u003e. He currently serves as Distinguished Professor of French at City University of New York, Graduate Center.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52702125359384,"sku":"9780816641956","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-collected-poems-of-edouard-glissant-paperback-softback-9780816641956","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}