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Moi, laminaire...
French
- GenresPoetry
94 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1982
About the author
Aimé Césaire
126 books671 followersMartinique-born poet, playwright, and politician Aimé Fernand Césaire contributed to the development of the concept of negritude; his primarily surrealist works include
The Miracle Weapons
(1946) and
A Tempest
(1969).
A francophone author of African descent. His books of include Lost Body, with illustrations by Pablo Picasso, Aimé Césaire: The Collected Poetry, and Return to My Native Land. He is also the author of Discourse on Colonialism, a book of essays which has become a classic text of French political literature and helped establish the literary and ideological movement Negritude, a term Césaire defined as “the simple recognition of the fact that one is black, the acceptance of this fact and of our destiny as blacks, of our history and culture.” Césaire is a recipient of the International Nâzim Hikmet Poetry Award, the second winner in its history. He served as Mayor of Fort-de-France as a member of the Communist Party, and later quit the party to establish his Martinique Independent Revolution Party. He was deeply involved in the struggle for French West Indian rights and served as the deputy to the French National Assembly. He retired from politics in 1993. Césaire died in Martinique.
A francophone author of African descent. His books of include Lost Body, with illustrations by Pablo Picasso, Aimé Césaire: The Collected Poetry, and Return to My Native Land. He is also the author of Discourse on Colonialism, a book of essays which has become a classic text of French political literature and helped establish the literary and ideological movement Negritude, a term Césaire defined as “the simple recognition of the fact that one is black, the acceptance of this fact and of our destiny as blacks, of our history and culture.” Césaire is a recipient of the International Nâzim Hikmet Poetry Award, the second winner in its history. He served as Mayor of Fort-de-France as a member of the Communist Party, and later quit the party to establish his Martinique Independent Revolution Party. He was deeply involved in the struggle for French West Indian rights and served as the deputy to the French National Assembly. He retired from politics in 1993. Césaire died in Martinique.
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May 5, 2021
Le désespoir n’a pas de nom
une main agite mou le drapeau de toutes les redditions
c’est le grand anguillard qui nous fait signe
que les gentillesses sont hors de saison
On tourne en rond. Autour du pot.
Le pot au noir bien sûr.
Noire la mangrove reste un miroir.
Aussi une mangeoire.
La mangrove broie-tapie à part.
La mangrove respire. Méphitique. Vasard.
La tourbière serait bien pire.
(Ce n’est rien que du haut: mort à la base
même portant beau)
Au contraire le fruit flotte le poisson grimpe
aux arbres
On peut très bien survivre mou
en prenant assise sur la vase commensale
L’allure est des forêts.
La dodine
celle du balancement des marées
December 19, 2025
Une de ces meilleurs œuvres à mon avis très réfléchi
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