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Poetry! The endemic illness of young malcontents, desperately embracing beauty, hog-tied to the tempting rhymes of a loaned-out language, tossed about between Creole and French like those rowboats over there on the sea I can hear but not see crashing from my shack.

Marie Vieux-Chauvet • Love, Anger, Madness

alina stefanescu, writer

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T hinking thought usually amounts to withdrawing into a dimensionless place in which the idea of thought alone persists. But thought in reality spaces itself out into the world. It informs the imaginary of peoPles, their varied poetics, which it then transforms, meaning, in them its risk becomes realized. Culture is the precaution of those who clai... See more

Edouard Glissant • Poetics of Relation

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Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation

people like Tranströmer and Ondaatje and Wisława Szymborska are touchstones for me. It’s a long list: George Seferis, Anne Carson, Charles Simic, Sharon Olds, Seamus Heaney: anyone who has found a way to sidestep conventional syntax.

Teju Cole • Known and Strange Things

Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Ocean Vuong

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J’avais oublié Jacques-Stéphen Alexis avec le temps, mais en le reprenant dernièrement j’ai tout de suite compris qu’il n’avait jamais cessé de cheminer en moi. Né en Haïti en 1922, Alexis est mort à 39 ans en tentant de renverser par les armes, avec quelques amis, le dictateur François Duvalier. Ce qui est triste c’est que j’avais oublié combien c

Dany Laferrière de l'Académie française • L'art presque perdu de ne rien faire: Collection bleue (essai français) (French Edition)

“Being able to say ‘this is who I am’ when everything else feels uncertain, flimsy, prone to dissolution, may be the greatest comfort we have. Is anything more seductive, more empowering?/ To be alive is to subject oneself to the reality of being permeable/ so, while I welcome the pleasure of those moments when I feel like myself, I don’t think I w

Eloghosa Osunde • A Long Talk: conversation between Eloghosa Osunde & Joshua Segun-Lean.

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Writer and activist James Baldwin on the power of reading:

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been ali