Research Catalog

Title

Like a misunderstood salvation and other poems / Aimé Césaire ; translated from the French and with an introduction by Annette Smith and Dominic Thomas.

Author

Césaire, Aimé

Publication

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2013.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Smith, Annette (Annette J.)
• Thomas, Dominic Richard David

Description

xxxiv, 70 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Translations of 53 poems from the beginning and end of Césaire's career, including the 31 poems omitted from "Aimé Césaire: the collected poetry," published in 1983.

Series Statement

AGM collection

Uniform Title

• Poems. 1994. English
• AGM collection.

Alternative Title

Poems. 1994.

Subject

Caribbean Area > Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry

Note

• "Originally published in French as Aime Cesaire: La poesie in 1994, 2006 by Editions du Seuil."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Solar throat slashed (poems deleted) -- Lynch 1 -- Devourer -- Rain -- Secret society -- Night crossing -- Transmutation -- Dwelling 1 -- The sun's stab in the back of unsuspecting cities -- While in the heat naked monks come down from the Himalayas -- Indecent behavior -- Laissez-passer -- Solid -- Femme and flame -- Compliments of history -- A few miles from the surface -- Scalp -- Apotheosis -- Undoing and redoing the sun -- To the serpent -- Torture -- Pennon -- Refinement of a mummy -- Idyll -- Password -- The shape of things -- Preliminary question -- Tattooing eyes -- Forfeit -- To the night -- Antipodal dwelling -- Fresh out of a metamorphosis -- Like a misunderstood salvation -- Obsidian stele for Alioune Diop -- Passage -- References -- Supreme mask -- The virtue of fireflies -- Rumination -- Time to speak -- Course -- Dyali -- Rapacious space -- Phantasms -- Laughable -- Craters -- Conventicles -- Islands speak -- Like a misunderstood salvation -- Ruminatings of calderas -- Through -- The sleeping woman rock, or Beautiful like the exasperation of the secession -- Favor from the trade winds (prose for the sun) -- For a fiftieth anniversary -- Configurations.

ISBN

• 9780810128965 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0810128969 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012041527

OCLC

813220941

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library