"Translator, Clayton Eshleman and editor, A. James Arnold team up to restore Césaire's original work for the public, unexpurgated, reclaiming the poems that had been edited over the years for political reasons. The introduction by Arnold is an essential explication of the work and as this is the only existing bilingual version of Solar Throat Slashed, it would be rewarding to approach the French originals at whatever level the reader is able...The verse is beautifully crafted, the content is historically valuable. Eshleman and Arnold are doing holy work here."–Grace Cavalieri, Washington Independent Book Review
"Comprehensive and elegant in its presentation, this is a worthwhile addition to any French Caribbean bookshelf."–H. Adlai Murdoch, Modern Language Review
"This is visionary or apocalyptic poetry, instinct with calamity and violence–as in the title's anti-sentimental comparison of a sunset to a slit throat. Yet, there is something of sublime ecstasy in Césaire's evocations of a liberating devastation. Coming thick and fast, the references to flames, hurricanes and eruptions appear to forge a metaphoric support for a daring and paradoxical presentiment of transformation and regeneration."–Roger Cardinal, Times Literary Supplement
"Eshelman and Arnold's thoughtful and inventive translation reveals untold riches to Anglophone readers. One senses on every page the cumulative mastery of this difficult art by the two most distinguished scholar-translators of Cesaire at work today."–Nick Nesbitt, Literature and Arts of the Americas
"By the end of this new original collection, one simply remains astonished, amazed, agape, aghast, and uprooted by Aimé Césaire's verse. In the current age of natural cataclysm and disaster capitalism, he has never seemed to so contemporary, so relevant, and so necessary."–Kevin Carollo, Rain Taxi
"Translator, Clayton Eshleman and editor, A. James Arnold team up to restore Césaire's original work for the public, unexpurgated, reclaiming the poems that had been edited over the years for political reasons. The introduction by Arnold is an essential explication of the work and as this is the only existing bilingual version of Solar Throat Slashed, it would be rewarding to approach the French originals at whatever level the reader is ableThe verse is beautifully crafted, the content is historically valuable. Eshleman and Arnold are doing holy work here."–Grace Cavalieri, Washington Independent Book Review
"this contemporary edition, revamped as a bilingual collection, continues to resonate deeply, providing wisdom for the mind, wealth for the soul and strength for these times. Solar Throat Slashed is poetry that transcends the ages. Cesaire takes poetic license in redefining style, and it is brilliantly revolutionary."–Misani Rites, Amsterdam News
