Edouard Glissant

Édouard Glissant, long recognized in the French and francophone world as one of the greatest writers and thinkers of our times, is increasingly attracting attention from English-speaking readers. Meer

In 1989, the Caribbean writer Edouard Glissant visited Rowan Oak, William Faulkner's home in Oxford, Mississippi. His visit spurred him to write a revelatory book about the work of one of our greatest but still least-understood American writers. Meer

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This marks the publication of the first English-language translation of Poetic Intention, Glissant's classic meditation on poetry and art. In this book, Glissant discusses poets and visual artists, arguing for the importance of the global position of art. Meer