Poetic Intention - Édouard Glissant (Nightboat Books) book A journey marked by a

A journey marked by a plethora of uncertainties

critical writers of all kinds to lend themselves as birth canals through which ideas of ‘labour and its sonic ecologies’ can be birthed

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he sometimes carries an olive branch and at other times drags behind him the weight of his memories

unchosen community tell you to be another

Poetic Intention - Édouard Glissant (Nightboat Books) book A journey marked by aThis book marks the publication of the first English language translation of Poetic Intention, Glissants classic meditation on poetry and art. In this wide ranging book, Glissant discusses poets, including Stphane Mallarm and Saint John Perse, and visual artists, such as the Surrealist painters Matta and Wilfredo Lam, arguing for the importance of the global position of art. He states that a poem, in its intention, must never deny the way of the