Saint-John Perse
French poet born in Guadeloupe who won the Nobel Prize in 1960. His long, ceremonial prose poems Anabase, Winds, and Seamarks evoke landscape and migration with biblical amplitude.
Works
- ElogesFrench poet's meditative verses evoking childhood, memory, and the colonial experience
- AnabaseFrench epic poem depicting a desert expedition as metaphor for spiritual journey
- ExileFrench poem of displacement and estrangement as political and personal condition
- WindsFrench poem evoking vast climatic and spiritual upheaval sweeping across continents
- SeamarksFrench maritime poetry meditating on ocean voyages and navigation as metaphor