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Solar Throat Slashed
Cesaire, Aime. Ed(S): Eshleman, Clayton; Arnold, A. James
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Description for Solar Throat Slashed
Hardback. The only bilingual edition of this radically original collection Editor(s): Eshleman, Clayton; Arnold, A. James. Translator(s): Arnold, A. James; Eshleman, Clayton. Num Pages: 172 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 453.
Soleil cou coupé (Solar Throat Slashed) is Aimé Césaire's most explosive collection of poetry. Animistically dense, charged with eroticism and blasphemy, and imbued with an African and Vodun spirituality, this book takes the French surrealist adventure to new heights and depths. A Césaire poem is an intersection at which metaphoric traceries create historically aware nexuses of thought and experience, jagged solidarity, apocalyptic surgery, and solar dynamite. The original 1948 French edition of Soleil cou coupé has a dense magico-religious frame of reference. In the late 1950s, Césaire was increasingly politically focused and seeking a wider audience, when he, in effect, ... Read more
Soleil cou coupé (Solar Throat Slashed) is Aimé Césaire's most explosive collection of poetry. Animistically dense, charged with eroticism and blasphemy, and imbued with an African and Vodun spirituality, this book takes the French surrealist adventure to new heights and depths. A Césaire poem is an intersection at which metaphoric traceries create historically aware nexuses of thought and experience, jagged solidarity, apocalyptic surgery, and solar dynamite. The original 1948 French edition of Soleil cou coupé has a dense magico-religious frame of reference. In the late 1950s, Césaire was increasingly politically focused and seeking a wider audience, when he, in effect, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
Number of Pages
172
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780819570703
SKU
V9780819570703
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