Pour la Revolution, Pour la Poesie
- Montreal: Lemeac / Collection Francophonie Vivante, 1974
Montreal: Lemeac / Collection Francophonie Vivante, 1974. Very Good-. [Montreal]: Lemeac / Collection Francophonie Vivante, [1974]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's glossy decorative card wrappers; 225pp. Wrapper margins rubbed and curled, white portions toned, original price sticker to rear cover, textblock uniformly toned, ownership signature to front free endpaper, else a Good to Very Good example.
Essay collection by Haitian poet and activist René Depestre (b. 1926). The work opens with a piece calling for a new identity for post-colonial Haiti and goes on to discuss the responsibilities of the modern Caribbean writer. A late essay is simply titled "Un Orphée des Caraïbes: Aimé Césaire.
Essay collection by Haitian poet and activist René Depestre (b. 1926). The work opens with a piece calling for a new identity for post-colonial Haiti and goes on to discuss the responsibilities of the modern Caribbean writer. A late essay is simply titled "Un Orphée des Caraïbes: Aimé Césaire.