TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Solar throat slashed : the unexpurgated 1948 edition
T2  - Wesleyan poetry
A1  - Césaire, Aimé
A2  - Arnold, A. James (Albert James)
A2  - Eshleman, Clayton
LA  - eng
LA  - fra
PP  - Middletown, Conn.
PB  - Wesleyan University Press
YR  - 2011
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/helka.9924257703506253
AB  - 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, gelded the 1948 text--eliminating 31 of the 72 poems, and editing another 29. Until now, only the revised 1961 edition, called Cadastre, has been translated. The revised text lacks the radical originality of Soleil cou coupé. This Wesleyan edition presents all the original poems en face with the new English translations.--From publisher description.
OP  - 183
SN  - 0819570702 cloth : alkaline paper
SN  - 9780819570703 cloth : alkaline paper
KW  - French poetry : Translations into English.
ER  -