
[MazetoSquare, 2024] - BOOK - 5" x 7.75", 142 pg, perfect-bound, 1st edition, published in original French & English, and in translation.
We bought a limited quantity of these unique & enlightening books in order to make readily available for US/CAN. [ down to 5 copies now ]. We can ship to ROW as well, although this edition is readily available direct from the publisher, MazetoSquare, based in Bordeaux, France.
Martinique-born author Patrick Chamoiseau & William Parker, in letters to one another, spanning November 2021–October 2022. With a preface by Alexandre Pierrepont, who also provided the French translation of Parker's letters. Chamoiseau's letters likewise presented in original French and in English translation.
Text from back of book:
In February 2022, at the Sons d’hiver festival, New York bass player William Parker presented his Trail of Tears musical fresco, evoking and invoking the spirits of a tragic moment in North American history: the deportation of the Cherokee to lands they believed belonged to no one. At almost the same time, Martinican writer Patrick Chamoiseau was returning from his search for the wreck of the Leusden, the slave ship that sank with its “cargo” in 1738, on the Guiana coast. In order to tackle such subjects in the Whole-World, and to sketch out a new “cartography of the sensitive”, Patrick Chamoiseau and William Parker kept up a correspondence, between the intimate and the universal, or the pluriversal, during the weeks surrounding the Trail of Tears performance (and beyond). The full text of this correspondence is brought together for the first time in this collection.