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When the pipirite sings : selected poems / Jean Métellus ; translated by Haun Saussy.
Van Pelt Library PQ2673.E7244 A913 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Métellus, Jean, 1937-2014, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Au pipirite chantant. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Métellus, Jean, 1937-2014--Translations into English.
- Métellus, Jean.
- MeÌtellus, Jean, 1937-2014.
- Haiti--Poetry.
- Haiti.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 80 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- When the Pipirite Sings: Selected Poems is the first major translation of the poetry of Haitian writer Jean Métellus, a poetry of nostalgia, prophecy, and empathy written from exile--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Translator's foreword: Naming the lwas in a Paris suburb
- When the pipirite sings
- No reprieve
- Land
- Death in Haiti
- Words
- Ogoun
- The wretched of this life
- For a Haitian schoolboy
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Translated from the French.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780810139787
- 0810139782
- OCLC:
- 1048944103
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