Poetic Intention - Édouard Glissant (Nightboat Books) MIT Press Edited by Cecilia Bien

Edited by Cecilia Bien

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whose work examines the relationship between politics and contemporary art

Akila Richards

Poetic Intention - Édouard Glissant (Nightboat Books) MIT Press Edited by Cecilia BienThis 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