One of the most important writers of the French Caribbean - Guardian

Poetics of Relation marks the high point of critical and cultural theory as articulated by Caribbean intellectuals. In the panoply of creative-theoretical intellectuals, Édouard Glissant occupies a place of high honor -- Carole Boyce Davies, Cornell University

To have the opportunity to encounter Glissant’s Poetics of Relation again is a gift. Betsy Wing’s translation captures the sensual flush of a prose that invents a new language as it remakes the world. A rare text, poetic and defiant. A revelation -- Colin Dayan, Vanderbilt University

One of the most important writers and philosophers of our time. Glissant called attention to means of global exchange that do not homogenize culture but produce a difference from which new things can emerge… I have a ritual of reading in Glissant’s books for fifteen minutes every morning… He is my most important theoretical influence -- Hans Ulrich Obrist

Glissant’s Poetics of Relation is a deeply transformative work written with profound acuity, flair and vision. Whilst reflecting on the specific historical realities and potentialities of the Antilles, Glissant’s central concepts of “rhizomatic thought”, “opacity” and “identity as a system of relation” speak urgently and directly to our contemporary moment. Betsy Wing’s translation of Glissant’s poetics powerfully captures his determination to destabilise and interrogate the French language from within and bears out Glissant’s moving observation that "Relation...is spoken multilingually" -- Mary Jean Chan

Life – whether human or more-than-human – is a story of relations in a constant process of becoming. Yet many do