Renewal by Irvin Desir
Papillote Press
Much admired by Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, the poetry of the Saint Lucian poet Irvin Desir is published here for the first time. Appearing in only a few anthologies during his life, this posthumous collection at last brings to our attention a voice too long unknown.
In his introduction to this collection, fellow Saint Lucian poet Vladimir Lucien says: “There is
something poignant, real and bracing about such a publication. Its humanity is in the very
unfinishedness of such a posthumous putting together of work of one who had virtually
disappeared.... We cannot but worship at the altar of a line such as: ‘You filled this cluttered
room/like a handful of clove’.”
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