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In the first quarter of the 20th century, Daniel Thaly of Dominica, then a British Caribbean colony, was one of France’s most celebrated poets. He was educated in Martinique and then at medical school in France before returning to Dominica. His illustrious reputation crumbled when radicals in theemerging anti-colonial Negritude movement criticised his work. From then on he wrote little. Here for the first time in English (and French) we can read a selection of his lyrical and passionate poems - many about Dominica - alongside an introduction that pieces together what little is known of his life.

Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, a Puerto Rican academic who specialises in research of the Caribbean, is a professor of Caribbean culture and literature in the Department of Hispanic Studies at Vassar College, New York State. The author of Phyllis Shand Allfrey: A Caribbean Life(1996),Jamaica Kincaid: A Critical Companion(1999),and Creole Religions of the Caribbean(2003, with Margarite Fernández Olmos), andLiteratures of the Caribbean(2008), she is currently working on books about the eruption of Mont Pelee in Martinique, a biography of José Martí, andEndangered Species: The Environment and the Discourse of the Caribbean Nation. She lives in New York City. Mark Andrews is an emeritus associate professor of French and Francophone studies at Vassar College, New York State, where he taught from 1981 to 2020. His research interests centre on 20th- and 21st-century poetry and fiction. He has written on the poetry of Saint-John Perse, Gérard Étienne, and Edward Kamau Brathwaite, as well as on the fiction of Claude Simon, Samuel Beckett, and Gisèle Pineau, among others. His writings focus on new practices of representation and contemporary cultural theories. He lives in the Hudson Valley.