In this unrhymed prose poem, Césaire develops the central image of torrential rain and its effects—both destructive and cathartic—on island cultures: “The rain, it’s the testy way here and now to strike out everything that exists, everything / that’s been… Read More ›
This 1940 cycle of five poems is included in Poems and Long Poems (Stikhotvoreniya i poemy), published in 1979. The poem’s first appearance in the journal Leningrad (1946) was suppressed swiftly, and the publication led to the poem’s condemnation when… Read More ›
Most, if not all, of Nguyễn Chí Thiện’s poems in the 1984 bilingual edition Flowers from Hell were composed in his head while Thiện was a political prisoner in North Vietnamese concentration camps between 1958 and 1976. Because he was… Read More ›