Aime Cesaire

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Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1984-10-01
Publisher(s): Univ of California Pr
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Summary

This edition, containing an extensive introduction, notes, the French original, and a new translation of Ceacute;saire's poetry--the complex and challenging later works as well as the famous Notebook--will remain the definitive Ceacute;saire in English.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(31)
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
32(54)
The Miraculous Weapons
86(74)
Gunnery Warning
89(2)
The Thoroughbreds
91(14)
Have No Mercy
105(1)
Serpent Sun
105(2)
Sentence
107(1)
Poem for the Dawn
107(2)
Visitation
109(1)
Mythology
109(2)
Perdition
111(2)
Survival
113(2)
Beyond
115(2)
The Miraculous Weapons
117(4)
Prophecy
121(1)
Night Tom-Tom
121(2)
Nostalgic
123(1)
The Automatic Crystal
123(2)
Conquest of a Dawn
125(4)
Debris
129(1)
Investiture
129(2)
The Virgin Forest
131(1)
Another Season
131(2)
Day and Night
133(1)
Annunciation
133(2)
Tom-Tom I
135(1)
Tom-Tom II
135(2)
High Noon
137(10)
Batouque
147(8)
The Oubliettes of the Sea and the Deluge
155(2)
The Woman and the Knife
157(2)
Postface: Myth
159(1)
Solar Throat Slashed
160(66)
Magic
163(2)
The Oricous Have the Floor
165(2)
The Law Is Naked
167(1)
Velocity
167(2)
Tangible Disaster
169(1)
Among Other Massacres
169(2)
The Griffin
171(1)
Redemption
171(2)
Mississippi
173(1)
Blues of the Rain
173(2)
The Scapegoat
175(1)
Son of Thunder
175(2)
Ex-voto for a Shipwreck
177(2)
Millibars of the Storm
179(2)
Your Hair
181(2)
The Tornado
183(2)
Totem
185(2)
Samba
187(2)
Interlude
189(1)
The Wheel
189(2)
Calm
191(2)
New Year
193(2)
All the Way from Akkad, from Elam, from Sumer
195(2)
To Africa
197(2)
Demons
199(1)
Night Swamp
199(2)
Noon Knives
201(2)
At the Locks of the Void
203(2)
Trite
205(2)
Ode to Guinea
207(2)
Horse
209(2)
Sun and Water
211(1)
March of Perturbations
211(2)
Barbarity
213(2)
Antipode
215(1)
Crusades of Silence
215(2)
Rains
217(1)
Nonvicious Circle
217(2)
Different Horizon
219(1)
Death at Dawn
219(2)
Lynch
221(2)
Howling
223(2)
The Light's Judgment
225(1)
Lost Body
226(34)
Word
229(4)
Who Then, Who Then...
233(2)
Elegy
235(2)
Presence
237(2)
Forloining
239(4)
Lost Body
243(4)
Your Portrait
247(2)
Summons
249(2)
Births
251(4)
Lay of Errantry
255(5)
Ferraments
260(98)
Ferraments
263(2)
Nursery Rhyme
265(2)
Seism
267(2)
Spirals
269(2)
Hail to Guinea
271(2)
Kingdom
273(1)
Monsoon-Mansion
273(2)
For Ina
275(1)
Birds
275(2)
Nocturne of a Nostalgia
277(2)
To Know Ourselves...
279(2)
Merciless Great Blood
281(2)
Beat It Night Dog
283(2)
...But There Is This Hurt
285(2)
Viscera of the Poem
287(2)
It Is Myself, Terror, It Is Myself
289(2)
Fangs
291(2)
Liminal Vampire
293(2)
My Profound Day's Clear Passage
295(2)
Corpse of a Frenzy
297(2)
Patience of Signs
299(2)
Phantoms
301(2)
Mobile Beam of Peculiar Dreams
303(1)
Bitter Season
303(2)
Statue of Lafcadio Hearn
305(2)
Beautiful Spurted Blood
307(2)
It Is the Courage of Men Which Is Dislocated
309(2)
From My Stud Farms
311(1)
Marine Intimacy
311(2)
Bucolic
313(1)
Ferment
313(2)
I Perseus Centuplicating Myself
315(1)
Precept
315(2)
Feeling the Sand with the Bamboo of My Dreams
317(2)
On the Islands of All Winds
319(2)
The Time of Freedom
321(2)
Gift of Tree Saps
323(2)
Tomb of Paul Eluard
325(6)
Memorial for Louis Delgres
331(8)
In Memory of a Black Union Leader
339(4)
...On the State of the Union
343(4)
Africa
347(2)
Out of Alien Days
349(2)
A Salute to the Third World
351(4)
Indivisible
355(1)
A Blank to Fill on the Travel Pass of the Pollen
355(2)
A Little Song to Cross a Big Stream
357(1)
In Truth...
357(1)
Noria
358(43)
Letter From Bahia-of-All-the-Saints
361(2)
Ethiopia...
363(6)
The Verb ``Marronner''
369(4)
Wifredo Lam...
373(2)
Voodoo Ceremonial for St.-John Perse
375(2)
When Miguel Angel Asturias Disappeared
377(2)
In Order to Speak
379(2)
I Guided the Long Transhumance of the Herd
381(2)
Lagoonal Calendar
383(4)
Banal
387(2)
Ibis-Anubis
389(2)
This Appeal Prohibited Blood
391(2)
To Be Deducted...
393(2)
Annonciades
395(2)
Zaffer Sun
397(1)
Internuncio
397(2)
A Freedom in Passage
399(2)
Notes 401

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