ARCHIPELAGO

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ARCHIPELAGO . INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE ABYSS. (TUNING IN TO EDOUARD GLISSANT). A FOREWOORD BY TRINH T MINH-HA. Note: Quotes from Edouard Glissant's Poetics of Relation (trans. Betsy Wing. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997; French original by Paris: Gallimard, 1990) are here put in conversation with fragments excerpted from my writings, some of which are from previous publications (with slight modifications), as indicated. The bold characters are mine. ELEMENTS The elementary reconstitutes itself absolutely Exclusion is the rule in binary practice, whereas poetics aims for the space of difference not exclusion but, rather where difference is realized in going be- yond (Edouard Glissant, 82). What's your name? The woman breathes out in relief. She has just finished taking a stones journey with her inquirer and is now ready to give a reading of what she has seen. "You're a dreamwalker I see a large blue but- terfly at your throat. A very large silvery blue butterfly slowly opening and closing.

“A poetics of structure. The creator of a text is effaced, or rather, is done away with, to be revealed in the texture of his creation” (EG, 25) Always start with water and earth when sky and sea meet and land lits up with the sunrays turning sweet, tangy and juicy the world goes round blue blue like an orange gushing over Paul Eluard’s line

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