Solar Throat Slashed: The Unexpurgated 1948 Edition

by Aimé Césaire

The only bilingual edition of this radically original collection

Soleil cou coup (Solar Throat Slashed) is Aim C saire'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 C saire poem is an intersection at which metaphoric traceries create historically aware...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819570702
• ISBN13: 9780819570703
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"