{"id":5918,"date":"2011-02-03T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=5918"},"modified":"2011-02-03T11:12:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T15:12:00","slug":"edouard-glissant-1928-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/edouard-glissant-1928-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Edouard Glissant (1928-2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"


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from: The Restless Earth<\/em><\/pre>\n
\u00a0<\/em>\r\n\u201cPromenade of Solitary Death\u201d\r\n\r\nThe sad boy has not moved\r\nOn a lake of roses, strewn\r\nWith pale bodies in the rosebushes\r\nFunereal bay it has remained\r\n\r\nThe shore hesitates the sea passes\r\nThe boars are water scourers\r\nBlack is the sand, the color\r\nIs evident in this place\r\n\r\nThe birds here cloak the murky sky\r\nwith the gray of their takeoffs\r\nSuch evidence has rendered mad\r\nThe first wave run aground\r\n\r\nWaves from madness to madness\r\nPale and wan the others have followed\r\nThe rosebushes have kept the alms\r\nOf suicides upon their surplice\r\n\r\nThe white race of frigate birds\r\nNever comes to this repasts\r\nThey go to sound other death knells\r\nWhere the wind wears no gloves\r\n\r\nHere there move only the flutter\r\nOf memory and this high cry\r\nThat was heard one August noon\r\nOn the cliff and its flock\r\n\r\nA cry of earth that deploys\r\nThe nervures of its foliage\r\nBecause love shall have searched it\r\nOr because the rain is pleasing\r\n\r\nA cry of woman torn open\r\nAt the edge of the fallows\r\nHer nubile breasts divided\r\nBetween misery and moss\r\n\r\nCry of deadbolt and cry of osprey\r\nAnd the people was asleep\r\nThe bird of prey makes its nest\r\nUpon the living ash of the tree\r\n\r\nAnd there still loves only milk\r\nOf seaweeds this smell,\r\nDeath vivifies death\r\nFunereal bay it has remained\r\n\r\nBut sad it has not moved\r\nUpon its lake of hatreds, strewn\r\nWith pale bodies in the thickets\r\nWho pardon you, O rosebushes.<\/pre>\n
\r\n\r\ntranslated by Jeff Humphries with Melissa Manolas\r\nin: The Collected Poems of Edouard Glissant<\/em>,\r\nUniversity of Minnesota Press 2005<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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