Aime Cesaire

by Césaire, Aimé; Eshleman, Clayton; Smith, Annette J.

• ISBN13: 9780520053205
• ISBN10: 0520053206
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1984-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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