Édouard Glissant

Praise for Poetics of Relation

One of the most important writers of the French Caribbean

Guardian

Poetics of Relation marks the high point of critical and cultural theory as articulated by Caribbean intellectuals. In the panoply of creative-theoretical intellectuals, Édouard Glissant occupies a place of h ...

Carole Boyce Davies, Cornell University

To have the opportunity to encounter Glissant’s Poetics of Relation again is a gift. Betsy Wing’s translation captures the sensual flush of a prose that invents a new language as it remakes the world. A rare ...

Colin Dayan, Vanderbilt University

One of the most important writers of the French Caribbean

Guardian

Poetics of Relation marks the high point of critical and cultural theory as articulated by Caribbean intellectuals. In the panoply of creative-theoretical intellectuals, Édouard Glissant occupies a place of h ...

Carole Boyce Davies, Cornell University

To have the opportunity to encounter Glissant’s Poetics of Relation again is a gift. Betsy Wing’s translation captures the sensual flush of a prose that invents a new language as it remakes the world. A rare ...

Colin Dayan, Vanderbilt University

One of the most important writers of the French Caribbean

Guardian

Poetics of Relation marks the high point of critical and cultural theory as articulated by Caribbean intellectuals. In the panoply of creative-theoretical intellectuals, Édouard Glissant occupies a place of h ...

Carole Boyce Davies, Cornell University

To have the opportunity to encounter Glissant’s Poetics of Relation again is a gift. Betsy Wing’s translation captures the sensual flush of a prose that invents a new language as it remakes the world. A rare ...

Colin Dayan, Vanderbilt University