Non-Vicious Circle: Twenty Poems of Aime Cesaire

The twenty poems in this book, presented in French with facing English translations, have been chosen to illustrate fundamental aspects of Cesaire’s thought, imagery, and style as these crystallized into a single, coherent system in the late 1940’s and the 1950’s. The work aims to assist both nonspecialist reader and scholar to a deeper comprehension of the poems and their formidable linguistic difficulties.