SOME TASTIES FROM EDOUARD GLISSANT:
(b. Martinique 1928. Poet, Novelist, Essayist)

"What I call Creolization is the encounter, the interference, the clash, the harmonies and disharmonies between cultures in the accomplished totality of the earth-world."

"The poet chooses, elects in the world mass what he needs to preserve, what his song accords with. And the rhythm is ritual force, lever of consciousness. It leads to these powers: prosodic richness (rigor), guarantor of choice, guardian of conquests; the knowledge of the world in its thickness and its spread, the enlightning obverse of History. That is to say poetry rebegins in the domains of the epic." (from 'Earth', trans. by Pierre Joris)

"In Relation the whole is not the finality of its parts: for multiplicity in totality is totally diversity."

Glissant on Haitian Painting:
http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/art/glissant.htm

Promenoir de la mort seule/Promenade of Solitary Death:

http://www.chairetmetal.com/glissant2/poem.htm

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