Written in French, REBARTHELEMY's Vents et Contretemps is "Against All Odds." This is a poem of dispute, of love, and of fidelity towards the author's trampled motherland; misused, abused, and humiliated. This poem of Spiralist style is presented as the verdict of an entire generation of Haitians] quartered at the very borders of the impossible and the imaginary. Prefaced by Franketienne, this is a book to read in emergency, before the happening of the inevitable, between darkness and light, between dying and surviving. Ecrit en francais, Vents et Contretemps de REBARTHELEMY est un recueuil spiraliste qui se presente comme le verdict de toute une generation d'Haitiens] ecartelee aux confins de l'impossible et de l'imaginaire. C'est un poeme de contestation, d'amour et de fidelite de la part du poete envers sa terre pietinee, maspinee, meurtrie et humiliee. Preface par Franketienne, Vents et Contretemps de REBARTHELEMY est une oeuvre a lire en toute urgence, devant que vienne la catastrophe, entre tenebres et lumiere, entre mourir et survivre."