Eroticism and Poetry Meet in René Depestre’s Alléluia pour une femme-jardin

With René Depestre, the honored author of this edition of Livres en Folie, it is an opportunity to revisit one of his most famous works: Alléluia pour une femme-jardin. A collection in which everyday words become the instruments of a sensual and distinctly Haitian celebration of existence.

This language, this composition, could only come from one pen: that of the legendary René Depestre, poet, novelist, and an essential figure in Haitian and Caribbean literature. His short story collection Alléluia p