Like a Misunderstood Salvation and Other Poems |
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| Author:
| Cesaire, Aime |
| Translator:
| Smith, Annette
Thomas, Dominic |
| Series title: | Avant-Garde and Modernism Collection |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8101-2896-5 |
| Publication Date: | May 2013 |
| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $18.95 |
Book Description:
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Annette Smith and Dominic Thomas's new translations of Aimé Césaire'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 Césaire's entire literary career and creative evolution as perhaps the only French poet writing simultaneously at the crossroads of the avant-garde and classical...
More DescriptionAnnette Smith and Dominic Thomas's new translations of Aimé Césaire'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 Césaire'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.