In this lecture, Manthia Diawara introduces the poetics of Édouard Glissant – or what Patrick Chamoiseau has described as the poecepts of the mangrove. Drawing on ideas of geomorphism and Glissant’s call to “consent to tremble with the trembling of the Other”, Diawara explores these concepts as possible responses to contemporary environmental crises often framed under the notion of the Anthropocene. Situating Glissant within a longer tradition of Caribbean poets and visual artists, the talk foregrounds how geography and geology – relations to flora, fauna, land, sea, and human life – have been constitutive of Caribbean identities. Diawara reflects on Tropiques, the influential journal published between 1941 and 1945 by René Ménil, Aimé Césaire, and Suzanne Césaire, which envisioned volcanic landscapes, water masses, and terrains not as inert backdrops, but as living presences – capable of feeling, intention, and shared trembling.