Annette Smith and Dominic Thomas s new translations of Aime Cesaire s Like a Misunderstood Salvation and Solar Throat Slashed (poems deleted) expose to a new audience a pivotal figure in twentieth-century French literature. This collection presents the early and last stages of a poet s course, encapsulating in one volume Cesaire s entire literary career and creative evolution as perhaps the only French poet writing simultaneously at the crossroads of the avant-garde and classical movements. This volume s inclusion of previously deleted poems from Solar Throat Slashed is politically...
Annette Smith and Dominic Thomas s new translations of Aime Cesaire s Like a Misunderstood Salvation and Solar Throat Slashed (poems deleted) expose t...