A work of immense cultural significance and beauty, this long poem became an anthem for the African diaspora and the birth of the Negritude movement. -- The Times. --Nicolas Sarkozy Evocative and thoughtful, touching on human aspiration far beyond the scale of its specific concerns with Cesaire\'s Native Land - Martinique. -- Bloomsbury Review Through his universal call for the respect of human dignity, consciousness and responsibility, he will remain a symbol of hope for all oppressed peoples.
Eshleman and Smith have revised their original 1983 translations and given it additional power by presenting Cesaire\'s unique voice as testament to a world reduced in size by catastrophic events.
This long poem was written at the end of World War II and became an anthem for many blacks around the world.
By this I mean that his work has never compromised its wild universe of double meanings, stretched syntax, and unexpected imagery.
More praise: The greatest living poet in the French language.-- American Book Review Martinique poet Aime Cesaire is one of the few pure surrealists alive today.
With unusual juxtapositions of object and metaphor, a bouquet of language-play, and deeply resonant rhythms, Césaire considered this work a break into the forbidden, at once a cry of rebellion and a celebration of black identity.
A work of immense cultural significance and beauty, this long poem became an anthem for the African diaspora and the birth of the Negritude movement
