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Book SynopsisContains an introduction, notes, the French original, and a translation of Cesaire's poetry - the complex and challenging later works as well as the famous Notebook.
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Table of ContentsIntroduction
NOTEBOOK OF A RETIJRN TO TIIE NATIVE LAND
THE MIRACULOUS WEAPONS
Gunnery Warning
The Thoroughbreds
Have No Mercy
Serpent Sun
Sentence
Poem for the Dawn
Visitation
Mythology
Perdition
Survival
Beyond
The Miraculous Weapons
Prophecy
Night Tom-Tom
Nostalgic
The Automatic Crystal
Conquest of a Dawn
Debris
Investiture
The Virgin Forest
Another Season
Day and Night
Annunciation
Tom-Tom
Tom-Tom
High Noon
Batouque
Les oubliettes de la mer et du deluge
La femme et le couteau
Postface: Mythe
SOLEIL COU COUPE
Magique
La parole aux oricous
La loi est nue
Allure
Desastre tangible
Entre autres massacres
Le griffon
Rachat
Mississippi
Blues de la pluie
Le bouc emissaire
Fils de la foudre
Ex-voto pour un naufrage
Millibars de l'orage
Chevelure
La tomade
Totem
Samba
Interlude
La roue
Calme
An neuf
Depuis Akkad, depuis Elam, depuis Sumer
Al' Afrique
Demons
Marais nocturne
Couteaux midi
Aux ecluses du vide
Quelconque
Ode a la Guinee
Cheval
Soleil et eau
Marche des perturbations
The Oubliettes of the Sea and the Deluge
The Woman and the Knife
Postface: Myth
SOLAR TIIROAT SLASHED
Magic
The Oricous Have the Floor
The Law Is Naked
Velocity
Tangible Disaster
Among Other Massacres
The Griffin
Redemption
Mississippi
Blues of the Rain
The Scapegoat
Son of Thunder
Ex-voto for a Shipwreck
Millibars of the Storm
Your Hair
The Tornado
Totem
Samba
Interlude
The Wheel
Calm
New Year
All the Way from Akkad, from Elam, from Sumer
To Africa
Demons
Night Swamp
Noon Knives
At the Locks of the Void
Trite
Ode to Guinea
Horse
Sun and Water
March of Perturbations
Barbare
Antipode
Croisades du silence
Pluies
Cercle non vicieux
Autre horizon
Mort a l' aube
Lynch
A hurler
Jugement de la lumiere
CORPS PERDU
Mot
Qui done, qui done . . .
Elegie
Presence
De forlonge
Corps perdu
Ton portrait
Sommation
Naissances
Dit d'errance
FERREMENTS
Ferrements
Comptine
Seisme
Spirales
Salut a la Guinee
Royaume
Maison-Mousson
Pour Ina
Oiseaux
Nocturne d'une nostalgie
Nous Savoir . . .
Grand sang sans merci
Va-t'en chien des nuits
. . . mais il y a ce mal
Barbarity
Antipode
Crusades of Silence
Rains
Nonvicious Circle
Different Horizon
Death at Dawn
Lynch
Howling
The Light's Judgment
LOST BODY
Word
Who Then, Who Then ...
Elegy
Presence
Forloining
Lost Body
Your Portrait
Summons
Births
Lay of Errantry
FERRAMENTS
Ferraments
Nursery Rhyme
Seism
Spirals
Hail to Guinea
Kingdom
Monsoon-Mansion
For Ina
Birds
Nocturne of a Nostalgia
To Know Ourselves ...
Merciless Great Blood
Beat It Night Dog
... But There Is This Hurt
Visceres du poeme
C'est moi-meme, Terreur, c'est moi-meme
Des crocs
Vampire liminaire
Clair passage de ma journee profonde
Cadavre d'une frenesie
Patience des signes
Fant6mes
Mobile fleau de songes etranges
Saison apre
Statue de Lafcadio Hearn
Beau sang gicle
C' est le courage des hommes qui est demis
De mes haras
Intimite marine
Bucolique
Ferment
Me centuplant Persee
Precepte
En tatant le sable du bambou de mes songes
Aux fies de taus vents
Le temps de la liberte
F aveur des seves
Tombeau de Paul Eluard
Memorial de Louis Delgres
A la memoire d'un syndicaliste noir
... sur l'etat de !'Union
Afrique
Hors des jours etrangers
Pour saluer le Tiers Monde
Indivisible
Blanc a remplir sur la carte voyageuse du pollen
Petite chanson pour traverser une grande riviere
En verite
NORIA
Lettre de Bahia-de-tous-les-saints
Ethiopie ...
Viscera of the Poem
It Is Myself, Terror, It Is Myself
Fangs
Liminal Vampire
My Profound Day's Clear Passage
Corpse of a Frenzy
Patience of Signs
Phantoms
Mobile Beam of Peculiar Dreams
Bitter Season
Statue of Lafcadio Hearn
Beautiful Spurted Blood
It Is the Courage of Men Which Is Dislocated
From My Stud Farms
Marine Intimacy
Bucolic
Ferment
I Perseus Centuplicating Myself
Precept
Feeling the Sand with the Bamboo of My Dreams
On the Islands of All Winds
The Time of Freedom
Gift of Tree Saps
Tomb of Paul Eluard
Memorial for Louis Delgres
In Memory of a Black Union Leader
... On the State of the Union
Africa
Out of Alien Days
A Salute to the Third World
Indivisible
A Blank to Fill on the Travel Pass of the Pollen
A Little Song to Cross a Big Stream
In Truth ...
NORIA
Letter From Bahia-of-All-the-Saints
Ethiopia . .
Le verbe marronner
Wifredo Lam . . .
Ceremonie vaudou pour Saint /ohn Perse
Quand Miguel Angel Asturias disparut
Pour dire . . .
J'ai guide du troupeau la longue transhumance
Calendrier lagunaire
Banal
Ibis Anubis
Sans instance ce sang
A valoir . . .
Annonciades
Soleil safre
Internonce
Passage d'une liberte
The Verb "Marronner"
Wifredo Lam . . .
Voodoo Ceremonial for St.-John Perse
When Miguel Angel Asturias Disappeared
In Order to Speak
I Guided the Long Transhumance of the Herd
Lagoonal Calendar
Banal
Ibis-Anubis
This Appeal Prohibited Blood
To Be Deducted ...
Annonciades
Zaffer Sun
Internuncio
A Freedom in Passage
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