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Poemas
A poesia de Aimé Césaire revira a crosta mundana e mostra os artefatos encantadores que a imaginação humana pode encontrar nas cercanias do ser.
Martiniquense, hoje com mais de 90 anos, político anticolonial com vários mandatos na Martinica, é um desses artistas a quem a nossa cultura, sem explicações, virou as costas.
Negro, ostenta sua "negritude", consciente de suas raízes africanas, é um lutador incansável contra a opressão do colonialismo.
Para Césaire, o homem vê, pensa e integra a natureza numa espécie de cerimônia sem contornos, inesgotável. É por isso, imagino, que num de seus poemas, ele conduz nossos olhos a enxergar "o sangue que sobe pela árvore da carne".
Bem-vindo entre nós mais este poeta do povo das Américas.
(Cláudio Antonio Ribeiro)
Martiniquense, hoje com mais de 90 anos, político anticolonial com vários mandatos na Martinica, é um desses artistas a quem a nossa cultura, sem explicações, virou as costas.
Negro, ostenta sua "negritude", consciente de suas raízes africanas, é um lutador incansável contra a opressão do colonialismo.
Para Césaire, o homem vê, pensa e integra a natureza numa espécie de cerimônia sem contornos, inesgotável. É por isso, imagino, que num de seus poemas, ele conduz nossos olhos a enxergar "o sangue que sobe pela árvore da carne".
Bem-vindo entre nós mais este poeta do povo das Américas.
(Cláudio Antonio Ribeiro)
63 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2006
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About the author
Aimé Césaire
124 books666 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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