Édouard Glissant

Édouard Glissant's most celebrated, scintillating philosophical work sets out a new poetic vision for the world. 'We cry our cry of poetry. Our boats are open, and we sail them for everyone.' In Poetics of Relation, his most celebrated philosophical work, Édouard Glissant turns the Caribbean reality of his life into a complex, energetic vision of a world in transformation....

The complete poems of the two-time finalist for the Nobel Prize in Literature, available in English for the first time This volume collects and translates—most for the first time—the nine volumes of poetry published by Édouard Glissant, a poet, novelist, and critic increasingly recognised as one of the great writers of the twentieth century. The poems bring to life what...