In recent years he has increasingly aligned himself not with British or American poetry but with a multilingual and multiracial Antillean literature that includes such writers as Jean Rhys, Lafcadio Hearn, Saint-John Perse (another Nobel winner), V.S.
He has taken an increasing interest in writers such as Jean Ryhy and Lafcadio Hearn.
He has shown nothing but contempt for multilingual and multiracial Antillean literature.