One of the few versions to adhere to the verse format of the original, this uncut, contemporary translation restores the humor so often lacking in English-language editions.

Mesmerizing and hauntinga lyrical translation. BroadwayWorld.com
Passionate, primal and poeticbeautifully translated by Langston Hughes. NOW Toronto
Merwin s] translation reveals this sensitivity, this sense of scale and musicality. Melia Benussen, Introduction
One of Spain s greatest poets and dramatists, Federico Garcia Lorca wrote in many styles but achieved maturity and fame with his peasant plays, Blood Wedding and Yerma, in which impassioned language and imagery accentuate tragic narratives. These never-before published translations...

-Cesaire's Tempest, in translation by Richard Miller, is a sprightly and song-filled enchantment. The luminous intelligence of Mr. Cesaire's meditation on the absurdities of colonialism shines through the antics of the bewildered characters.- -New York Times
-The weapon of poetry may be Cesaire's greatest gift to a modern world still searching for freedom. As one of the last truly great 'universalists' of the twentieth century, he has had a hand in shaping or critiquing many of the major ideologies and movements of the modern world. In his own words: 'Poetic knowledge is...