My poems are expressions of my conscience and my affect, my state of being and feeling. They are as well testimony as far as they memorialize instants of the passing time. My poetry is a cry of conscience, an appeal to surpass bad faith, a reach to transcendence. I also identify with the indigenous peoples who, like the anti-colonialists Caonabo and Anacaona in Haiti, resisted the trampling of their rights by the newcomers. They paid the genocidal price as a result. Giants like Toussaint, Dessalines, Bolivar, Marti, and Castro, Chavez, would continue the tradition of resistance."

ENGLISH: With Poetica Agwe, Tontongi returns with the same incendiary style, poetic flair, philosophical penetration and revolutionary flame he has demonstrated in his first book of poems, Cri de Reve ("Cry of Dream"). He brings again here, in a trilingual edition, his honest, lyrical writings on his personal experiences, on History, resistance, peace, and the fate of human beings. It's a beautiful book to read, presented in three different languages. .........................HAITIAN: Avek liv Poetica Agwe, Tontongi retounen ak menm estil e emosyon pwetik anflanme, menm penetrasyon filozofik ak elan revolisyone li te layite nan premye liv powem li Cri de Reve (- Kri Rev Mwen -).Misye deboulonnen isit la, nan yon edisyon an twa lang, yon bel ekriti onet sou eksperyans pesonel li, sou Istwa, rezistans, lape e destine kretyenvivan. Se yon bel liv pou moun li, ki prezante nan twa diferan lang. ........................FRENCH: Avec Poetica Agwe, Tontongi revient avec le meme style incendiaire, le meme souffle poetique, la meme penetration philosophique et elan revolutionnaire qu'il a exhibes dans son premier livre de poemes, Cri de Reve.Il reprend ici, dans une edition trilingue, la franche lyrique sur ses experiences personnelles, sur l'Histoire, sur la resistance, sur la paix et sur la destinee du genre humain. C'est un beau livre a lire, presente en trois differentes langues.

An anthology of Haitian and Caribbean writers and poets presented by the Revue Tanbou. All 67 writers are published in the revue over the last fifteen years. A plethora of voices and poetic sensibilities united in these pages to display the beauty of Haitian literatures - in their Creole, French and English expressions - as well as the quest for justice and for authenticity of being. Each of these voices is a revelation that invites introspection.