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Engagements with Aimé Césaire

Thinking with Spirits

By: Jason Allen-Paisant

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Engagements with Aimé Césaire

Thinking with Spirits

By: Jason Allen-Paisant

In this inventive and thoughtful study, renowned poet Jason Allen-Paisant provides a timely critical reappraisal of Aimé Césaire's works. The book showcases Césaire as a major Black thinker, whose writings remain deeply relevant to today's crises and debates.

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Oxford University Press

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0192867229

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9780192867223

Thinking with Trees

By: Jason Allen-Paisant

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Thinking with Trees

By: Jason Allen-Paisant

Jason Allen-Paisant grew up in a village in central Jamaica. 'Trees were all around, ' he writes, 'we often went to the yam ground, my grandmother's cultivation plot. When I think of my childhood, I see myself entering a deep woodland with cedars and logwood all around. [...] The muscular guango trees were like beings among whom we lived.' Now he lives in Leeds, near a forest where he goes walking. 'Here, trees represent an alternative space, a refuge from an ultra-consumerist culture...' And even as they help him recover his connections with nature, these poems are inevitably political. As Malika Booker writes, 'Allen-Paisant's poetic ruminations deceptively radicalise Wordsworth's pastoral scenic daffodils. The collection racializes contemporary ecological poetics and its power lies in Allen-Paisant's subtle destabilization of the ordinary dog walker's right to space, territory, property and leisure by positioning the colonised Black male body's complicated and unsafe reality in these spaces.

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120

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Carcanet Press

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1800171137

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9781800171138

Self-Portrait as Othello

By: Jason Allen-Paisant

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Self-Portrait as Othello

By: Jason Allen-Paisant

Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023 Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023 The Poetry Book Society Spring Choice 2023 Jason Allen-Paisant's debut collection Thinking With Trees won the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for poetry and was an Irish Times and White Review Book of the Year 2021. In Poetry London Maryam Hessavi wrote, 'Jason Allen-Paisant is uncompromising when digging down through the undergrowth of our imperialist past – and yet he succeeds in replanting new narratives in the same soil where these toxic ideologies used to, and still, reside.' The interlocking poems of his second collection, Self-Portrait as Othello, imagine Othello in the urban landscapes of modern London, Paris and Venice and invent the kinds of narrative he might tell about his intersecting identities. Poetic memoir and ekphrastic experiment, Self-Portrait as Othello focuses on a character at once fictional and real. Othello here represents a structure of feeling that was emerging in seventeenth-century Venice, and is still with us. Portraiting himself as Othello, Allen-Paisant refracts his European travels and considers the Black male body, its presence, transgressiveness and vulnerabilities. Othello's intertwined identities as 'immigrant' and 'Black', which often operate as mutually reinforcing vectors, speak to us in the landscape of twenty-first-century Europe.

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Carcanet Press Ltd

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1800173113

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9781800173118

Engagements with Aimé Césaire

Thinking with Spirits

By: Jason Allen-Paisant

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Engagements with Aimé Césaire

Engagements with Aimé Césaire

Thinking with Trees

Thinking with Trees

Self-Portrait as Othello

Self-Portrait as Othello

Engagements with Aimé Césaire

Engagements with Aimé Césaire

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