Blue Flare: Three Contemporary Haitian Poets: Évelyne Trouillot, Marie-Celie Agnant, Maggy de Coster

Three celebrated poets illuminate the complexity of life in Haiti and its diaspora in the 21^st century, particularly for women, in this exceptional and unprecedented trilingual collection. In Évelyne Trouillot’s sensual poems about love and yearning, she asks repeatedly “in what language should I speak to you”? Marie-Célie Agnant addresses poverty, pain, death, but also the pleasures of passion. Maggy De Coster’s concise and personal poems explore the world — its nature, light, wind — and, ...