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Author: CESAIRE, AIME Matches Found: 151 Cesaire, Aime Poet's Biography 151 poems available by this author A CONVERSATION WITH MONICA WILSON Poem Text First Line: You sayer / what is there to say Last Line: Stake out settlements in the upper network of death Subject(s): Conversation; Death A DAY Poem Text First Line: To amuse myself Last Line: From the muzzle of an oblivious volcano Subject(s): Life Choices A FREEDOM IN PASSAGE Poem Text First Line: The jolly roger flapping in the ever barbary wind Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ABYSS First Line: He pondered the logic of the swamp's teeth Last Line: An isolate of sea slugs coiffed with venom helmets %thus %all nostalgia %rolls %into the abyss Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ALGAE Poem Text First Line: The resurgence takes place here Last Line: Takes place / laminarium alga Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ALGAE First Line: The resurgence takes place here Last Line: Even more than through afflux %the resurgence %takes place %laminarian alga Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ANNONCIADES Poem Text First Line: The good news will have been brought to me through the Last Line: An irreducible memory Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) ANNONCIADES First Line: The good news will have been brought to me through the Last Line: And at the crest of the world %captivates %an irreducible memory Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) AT THE LOCKS OF THE VOID Poem Text First Line: In the foreground and in longitudinal flight a dried-up brook AUTOMATIC CRYSTAL First Line: Hullo hullo one more night stop guessing it's me the cave man there are Last Line: Maguey of an undertow of eagles under the banyan BANAL Poem Text First Line: Only the laboror's sledge of torpor or maneuver Last Line: Stuck as I am with inventing each water hole Subject(s): Labor & Laborers BANAL First Line: Only the laboror's sledge of torpor or maneuver Last Line: And always this misdeal to negotiate step by step %stuck as I am with inventing each water hole Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BEHEADED SUN, SELS. Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BEYOND First Line: From the bottom of the furious piling up of appalling dreams Last Line: The hand of a woman assassinating the day Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BLANK TO FILL IN ON THE VISA OF POLLEN First Line: If there were nothing in the desert but Last Line: Blank to fill in on the visa of pollen BUCOLIC Poem Text First Line: Then very gently the earth grows a mane Last Line: Cities into the sea. Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) BUCOLIC First Line: Then very gently the earth grows a mane Last Line: Bamboo pushes a tall herd of shivering temples and cities into the sea Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) CONFIGURATIONS First Line: Nothing delivers but the obscurity of speaking Last Line: To the surrection of a rock CONSPIRACY Poem Text First Line: For them the stones were without marrow a snail-prison Last Line: All the solar heaters rolled and weaver birds Subject(s): Conspiracy; Negritude (literary Movement) CONSPIRACY First Line: For them the stones were without marrow a snail-prison Last Line: It will not be the first time that a jet of living water %topples the head of the beast Subject(s): Conspiracy; Negritude (literary Movement) CONVERSATION WITH MONICA WILSON First Line: You sayer %what is there to say Last Line: Let the grotesque sylph of this selva %stake out settlements in the upper network of death Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) CRACKS Poem Text First Line: Rthe dark spelling establishes his law Last Line: Crevasse I have tried Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) CREVASSES First Line: Saturnine spelling establishes its law: uras usury! Bar- Last Line: I who used to dream of writing dazzling with rage! %crevassei will have attempted Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) DAY First Line: To amuse myself Last Line: That hangs, facetiously, like a flag end, %from that muzzle of an oblivious volcano Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) DEBRIS Poem Text First Line: Thoughts debris of shelters Last Line: With a little bit of dubious resentment Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Ancestors & Ancestry DEBRIS First Line: Thoughts debris of shelters Last Line: Which from time to time breaks the torpor of the compitalia %with a little bit of dubious resentment Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) DIFFERENT HORIZON First Line: Night forked stigmata Last Line: The purple muscle of the monkshodd of our sun prepares to spring Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) DISCOURSE ON IMPERIALISM, SELS. First Line: How did you come to develop the concept of negritude? Last Line: But it is not the only thing Subject(s): Imperialism; Negritude (literary Movement) DON'T BE TAKEN IN Poem Text First Line: That sap does not stray onto the wrong trails Last Line: Of a man's day Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) DON'T BE TAKEN IN First Line: That sap does not stray onto the wrong trails Last Line: The strength of my sun worries about the capacity %of a man's day Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) EPACTS Poem Text First Line: With a limp gesture the hill sprinkled with dust over Last Line: I've always rejected the pact of this lagoonal calendar Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Colonialism EPACTS First Line: With a limp gesture the hill sprinkled with dust over Last Line: Let it be clear to all that calculating the epacts %I've always rejected the pact of this lagoonal c Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) EX-VOTO FOR A SHIPWRECK Poem Text First Line: Hele hele the king is a great king Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks EX-VOTO FOR A SHIPWRECK First Line: Hele hele the king is a great king Last Line: Of the little upside down laugh of the sea in the sunken ship's gorgeous potholes Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks FLINT WARRIOR THROUGH ALL WORDS Poem Text First Line: Disorder organizes itself into an appraiser of hills Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FLINT WARRIOR THROUGH ALL WORDS First Line: Disorder organizes itself into an appraiser of hills Last Line: Flint warrior %vomited %through the mangrove swamp serpent's snout Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) FORFEITURE Poem Text First Line: As soon as I press the little pawl that I have under my tongue at a FREEDOM IN PASSAGE First Line: The jolly roger flapping in the ever barbary wind Last Line: To correct the erinyes' blunders and the stiff wine of moray%eels Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) GENESIS FOR WIFREDO First Line: No more alburnam %only a dawn of pure bones Last Line: As for blood there's only a sinuous thread %in the median of a parturient verb Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) HAVE NO MERCY Poem Text First Line: Smoke swamp / the rupestral images of the unknown Last Line: Like a viper born from the blond force of respendrnce Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Swamps HAVE NO MERCY First Line: Smoke swamp %the rupestral images of the unknown Last Line: Like a viper born from the blonde force of resplendence Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) HEARTH Poem Text First Line: Memory honoring the landscape Last Line: In the palms of an autumn Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Memory HEARTH First Line: Memory honoring the landscape Last Line: A recollection of very soft skin is not out of the question %in the palms of an autumn Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) HORSE; FOR PIERRE LOEB Poem Text First Line: My horse falters against skulls Last Line: The chlorophyllous dough of t horses;he vast ravens of the future Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Horses HORSE; FOR PIERRE LOEB First Line: My horse falters against skulls Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) I GUIDED THE LONG TRANSHUMANCE OF THE HERD Poem Text First Line: To walk across the slumbers of cyclones that carry Last Line: The flambe belly of receding fair weather Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Walking I GUIDED THE LONG TRANSHUMANCE OF THE HERD First Line: To walk across the slumbers of cyclones that carry Last Line: The most plutonic part of a nugget that is none other than %the flambe belly of receding fair weathe Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) IBIS-ANUBIS Poem Text First Line: A few traces of erosion Last Line: Under the incomprehensible alphabets of ther moment Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Memory IBIS-ANUBIS First Line: A few traces of erosion Last Line: Eagle owl word you will plane this cry from its %anubis snout Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) IN MEMORY OF A BLACK UNION LEADER First Line: Let no tempest subside no rock stagger Last Line: To the eyes of the comrades, varnished light vaguely tinged with blood Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) IN ORDER TO SPEAK Poem Text First Line: In order to revitalize the roaring of phosphenes Last Line: To the point of firevomiting / its mouth Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Speech; Anger IN ORDER TO SPEAK First Line: In order to revitalize the roaring of phosphenes Last Line: To the point of firevomiting %its mouth Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) INCONGRUOUS BUILDERS Poem Text First Line: Too bad if the forests wilts into pereskia stalks Last Line: Around a few ghosts more real than they appear / incongruous builders Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Environmental Abuse; Buildings & Builders INCONGRUOUS BUILDERS First Line: Too bad if the forests wilts into pereskia stalks Last Line: Around a few ghosts more real than they appear %inconruous builders Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) INTERNUNCIO Poem Text First Line: Off and on I lose it for weeks Last Line: And of my own blood a firefly among fireflies Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Language INTERNUNCIO First Line: Off and on I lose it for weeks Last Line: Spectral and spasmodic %and of my own blood a firefly among fireflies Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) INVENTORY OF REEFS Poem Text First Line: So comely / so comely / caribbees Last Line: Adieu aviary / cagelings adieu Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Birds INVENTORY OF REEFS First Line: So comely %so comely %caribbees Last Line: Chanson of the cage %adieu aviary %cagelings adieu Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) IT IS THE NECESSARY PASSAGE First Line: It is the necessary passage that from here I decline Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) JUSTICE LISTENS AT THE GATES OF BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: A flight / pauses in the tree ferns Last Line: Indeed above everything Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Courts & Courtiers; Disasters; Beauty JUSTICE LISTENS AT THE GATES OF BEAUTY First Line: A flight %pauses in the tree ferns Last Line: That the feast be restored %that justice beam %indeed above everything Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) KNOWLEDGE OF MORNES First Line: The mornes are not a convulsion of giant birds Last Line: Your ax planted clearly %in the dry heart of slumbers and the poor stupor of sands Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LAGOONAL CALENDAR Poem Text First Line: I inhabit a sacred wound Last Line: Even if it changes with beauty my words Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LAGOONAL CALENDAR First Line: I inhabit a sacred wound Last Line: Even if it makes certain words of mine sumptuous %immeasurably increases my plight Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LAND SURVEY, SELS. Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LAUGHABLE First Line: I have not been nailed to the most absurd of rocks Last Line: Horseman of time and sea foam LAW OF THE CORAL REEFS First Line: We the rag men of hope Last Line: Wandering with great tenacity %toward the barbarous rocks of the future Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LAY OF THE ROVER First Line: All that ever was dismembered Last Line: Sword of a flame that torments me %I fell the trees of eden LEON G. DAMAS FEU SOMBRE TOUJOURS First Line: Des promesses qui eclatent en petites fusees Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LEON G. DAMAS SOMBER FIRE ALWAYS Poem Text First Line: Promises that burst into tiny missiles Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Damas, Leon G. (1912-1978) LEON G. DAMAS SOMBER FIRE ALWAYS First Line: Promises that burst into tiny missiles Last Line: On the horizon of my salute %brother %somber fire always Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LET IT SMOKE First Line: Torus %taurus %of the big game Last Line: Doing shrinks %let the volcano smoke Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LET US OFFER ITS HEART TO THE SUN First Line: The beast must have surrendered on the path of your last Last Line: To the gourd of seeds %in the dawn of a hand begging for ghosts Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LINK OF THE CHAIN GANG Poem Text First Line: With bits of string Last Line: To build thee Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) LINK OF THE CHAIN GANG First Line: With bits of string Last Line: By whirlwinds %and waterspouts %to build thee Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MACUMBA WORD First Line: The word is the father of the saints Last Line: Sometimes I even sneak a swim on the back of a dolphin %word Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MAILLON DE LA CADENE First Line: Avec des bouts de ficelle Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MANGROVE SWAMP First Line: It is not always a good idea to splash about in just any Last Line: \spews dirt and water aplenty %april his breastplate %stempost %stallion Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MANGROVE SWAMP SYNDROME First Line: Despair has no name Last Line: The look is that of forests. %the lulling %that of the swaying of tides Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MIRACULOUS WEAPONS First Line: The great machete blow of red pleasure right in the face there was blood Last Line: A dungeon the frail water without a femur the serous peritoneum of springhead evenings Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MIRACULOUS WEAPONS, SELS. Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) MONSTERS First Line: I recognize them %the smell the breath a mere nothing Last Line: It is my heart torn from the hands of the earthquake- %the cipher Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NEW KINDNESS Poem Text First Line: To deliver the world to assassins of dawn is out of the Last Line: A new kindness is ceaselessly growing on the horizon Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NEW KINDNESS First Line: To deliver the world to assassins of dawn is out of the Last Line: And sweet calabashes in the hollows of offering hands %a new kindness is ceaselessly growing on the Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NIGHTS Poem Text First Line: The nights over here are not worth writing home about Last Line: That the temeritous day annouces its own birth Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Night NIGHTS First Line: The nights over here are not worth writing home about Last Line: It is not always from the management cell of the catastrophe%that the temeritous day announces its o Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NOTEBOOK OF A RETURN TO THE NATIVE LAND, SELECTION Poem Text First Line: I would rediscover the secret of great communications Last Line: Understand me would not understand the roaring of the tiger either Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NOTEBOOK OF A RETURN TO THE NATIVE LAND, SELECTION Poem Text First Line: At the end of daybreak Subject(s): Family Life; Negritude (literary Movement); Relatives NOTEBOOK OF A RETURN TO THE NATIVE LAND, SELS. First Line: Islands scar of the water Last Line: Will now fish the malevolent tongue of the night in its motionless veerition! Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) NOTEBOOK OF A RETURN TO THE NATIVE LAND, SELS. First Line: I would rediscover the secret of great communications Last Line: Me would not understand any better the roaring of a tiger Subject(s): Men NOTES ON A RETURN TO THE NATIVE LAND, SELS. First Line: Death traces a shining circle Last Line: Not burst mute earth %with its upright cries? Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918); Negritude (literary Movement) ON THE ISLANDS OF ALL WINDS Poem Text First Line: Lands which leap very high Last Line: That finally exulting in the wounded kine of the stars Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Islands ON THE ISLANDS OF ALL WINDS First Line: Lands which leap very high Last Line: The carnal and kinky black head of the sun Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PASSAGES First Line: (the necessity of inspection %acceptable only in that Last Line: The halt of a lively termitarium %is already emerging from the muddle Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PATH Poem Text First Line: Let us take up again Last Line: Depending on the stubbornness to ripen Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Slavery PATH First Line: Let us take up again Last Line: To speak is to go with the seed %all the way to the black secret of numbers Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PERDITION First Line: We will strike the new air with our armor-plated heads Last Line: In the tolling canna of rich twilights Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PILLAGE First Line: One must know how to cross the entire expanse of blood Last Line: A sun thoughtlessly distributed to glowworms %while burning an incredulous expectation in pure blood Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PIRATE First Line: His share of the sun? Last Line: Pirate ambush of remorse %the sun is not here as an intruder Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PROPHECY Poem Text First Line: There where adventure stays clear-sighted Last Line: Where the agile wonder leanes no stone or fire unturned Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) PROPHECY First Line: There where adventure stays clear-sighted Last Line: My revolt my name %prophetically bathe Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) REFERENCES First Line: He sought no alibi Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) RIBBON First Line: I come across my skeleton Last Line: Oh to still be available toward a delay of extinguished islands and volcanoes dozing Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) RIVERS ARE NOT IMPASSIVE Poem Text First Line: Same brawl / this big scar on my belly Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Blood; Rivers RIVERS ARE NOT IMPASSIVE First Line: Same brawl %this big scar on my belly Last Line: Sole haggard grippers of %the mangroves' base Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SECOND ADVENTIVITY First Line: In those days time was the sunshade of a very beautiful Last Line: Time was not a gangly gringo %I mean a second adventivity man %a man came %a man Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SECRET SOCIETY First Line: From the lagoon rises an odor of blood and an army of flies Last Line: To the bottom of the mulish gravel of unmarked catastrophe SENTENCE Poem Text First Line: And why not the hedge of geysers the obelisk of hours Last Line: Appearance salavated from my mug of sphinx muzzle unmuzzled since nothingness Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SENTENCE First Line: And why not the hedge of geysers the obelisk of hours Last Line: Assassin clad in rich and calm muslins like a chant of hard wine Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SENTIMENTS AND RESENTMENTS OF WORDS First Line: There are arcangels of great time Last Line: Sapid and insipid evil %the dreadful resentment of saliva reswallowed by the surf Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SERPENT SUN EYE BEWITCHING MY EYE Poem Text First Line: Serpent sun eye bewitching my eye Last Line: The sugar in the word barzil deep in the marsh Subject(s): Sun SERPENT SUN EYE BEWITCHING MY EYE Last Line: The sugar in the word brazil deep in the marsh Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SHACKLES, SELS. Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SINCE AKKAD, SINCE ELAM, SINCE SUMER First Line: Intruder, uprooter %puff of wind suffered, puff onrushing Last Line: Since elam since akkad since sumer SLOWNESS First Line: The hyperactivating of the lands Last Line: And blows from time to time %through the debris Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SMELL First Line: But the smell came Last Line: The smell is not hollow. %the smell has no folds Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SOLVITUR Poem Text First Line: Without this anger it is clear Last Line: No. / solvitur Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Anger SOLVITUR First Line: Without this anger it is clear Last Line: Afterglow of a remanence %igitur %no. %solvitur Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SONG OF THE SEA HORSE Poem Text First Line: Tiny horse escaped from time Last Line: Unerring in the wind the salt and the wrack Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Sea Horses SONG OF THE SEA HORSE First Line: Tiny horse escaped from time Last Line: And away you'll gallop tiny horse %fearless %unerring in the wind the salt and the wrack Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) STATE OF THE UNION First Line: Gentlemen, %the situation is tragic Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) STONE First Line: Shall we finally see him endorse his own strength Last Line: The water soaking with green leaves %there rained the approach of an equinox Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) STRENGTH TO FACE TOMORROW First Line: The kisses of meteorites Last Line: Exhausted by a resurgent doubt %the srength to face tomorrow Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) SUPREME MASK First Line: Fibers feather smooth wood Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TEST First Line: Les chercheurs de silex Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TESTING Poem Text First Line: The flint hunters / the obsidian assayers Last Line: And most ignominiously Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Language TESTING First Line: The flint hunters %the obsidian assayers Last Line: Were given notice ages ago %and most ignominiously Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) THAT, THE HOLLOW First Line: That is unfurnishable it is hollow Last Line: Birdlime %in most cases that is crawlable Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) THE STRENGTH TO FACE TOMORROW Poem Text First Line: The kisses of meteorites Last Line: The strength to face tomorrow Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) THE WOMAN AND THE FLAME Poem Text First Line: A bit of light that descends the springhead of a gaze Subject(s): Weather THIS APPEAL-PROHIBITED BLOOD Poem Text First Line: Always, less lively than beautiful, the air , save for this breath Last Line: Earth, self-conscious, clipped, reduced, in breach of fauna Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) THIS APPEAL-PROHIBITED BLOOD First Line: Always, less lively than beautiful, the air , save for this breath Last Line: These unseizable seasons this eyelash-denied sky and this %appeal-prohibited food Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO BE DEDUCTED First Line: Apings %those who with their gazestone assassinate Last Line: Its ornament of fire %its dolman of blood %its flag of renewal Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO KNOW, HE SAYS First Line: Hey connoisseur of knowing Last Line: As do the ardent hooves of the wind-horse %along the trails of night Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TO THE SERPENT Poem Text First Line: I have had occasion in the bewilderment of cities to search for the TONGUE FASHION Poem Text First Line: Keystone / hieroglyphs / forget the abolished constellation Last Line: The sacred territory reluctantly conceded by the leaves Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TONGUE FASHION First Line: Keystone %hieroglyphs %forget the abolished constellation Last Line: Reclaimed from wild beasts %the sacred territory reluctantly conceded by the leaves Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TORNADO First Line: That time when %the senator noticed that Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Tornadoes TORPOR OF HISTORY First Line: Between two puffs of familiar birds Last Line: Ah! That road halfway up and its solid surplus %I'm awaiting%awaiting %the wind Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TRANSMISSION First Line: The surplus %I had shed it into the rutsof the roads Last Line: Meanwhile time was hacking at me harshly %down to my intact root Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) TYPICAL Poem Text First Line: Incidents along the way Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Danger; Insects; Travel TYPICAL First Line: Incidents along the way Last Line: In any case %it is not recommended to indulge in breaks Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) UNBROKEN NIGGER CREST LINE First Line: There are volcanoes that are dying Last Line: There are volcanoes whose openings are in exact %scale with the ancient rip Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) VENOM VERSION First Line: The most varied combinations always bring us back Last Line: And with the impress of ashes %the breakdown of debris takes forever Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WAY THINGS TURN OUT First Line: It's true the speculation of the birds of paradise no longer wilts Last Line: Nightmares void of memory void of indifference WHEN MIGUEL ANGEL ASTURIAS DISAPPEARED First Line: Skillful flint striker %grandly flinging golden grain into the thick mane Last Line: And settled, an ever green mountain, %on the horizon of all men Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WIFREDO LAM Poem Text First Line: To report: nothing less than Last Line: And the law of your name Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WIFREDO LAM First Line: To report: nothing less than Last Line: The vertigo of your blood %and the law of your name Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) WRECKAGE First Line: Someone's impotent utterance or else very real horses Last Line: Winging it and %cunning %the silentious open air of the split Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) YOUR PORTRAIT First Line: I say river corrosive %kiss of guts Last Line: Henceforth %swirling %and liquid ZAFFER SUN First Line: At the foot of stammering volcanoes Last Line: Parakinesized by lofty bitter kingdoms %I %zaffer sun Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement) |
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