"Originally published in French as Aime Cesaire: La poesie in 1994, 2006 by Editions du Seuil." Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Introduction -- Solar throat slashed (poems deleted) -- Lynch 1 -- Devourer -- Rain -- Secret society -- Night crossing -- Transmutation -- Dwelling 1 -- The sun's stab in the back of unsuspecting cities -- While in the heat naked monks come down from the Himalayas -- Indecent behavior -- Laissez-passer -- Solid -- Femme and flame -- Compliments of history -- A few miles from the surface -- Scalp -- Apotheosis -- Undoing and redoing the sun -- To the serpent -- Torture -- Pennon -- Refinement of a mummy -- Idyll -- Password -- The shape of things -- Preliminary question -- Tattooing eyes -- Forfeit -- To the night -- Antipodal dwelling -- Fresh out of a metamorphosis -- Like a misunderstood salvation -- Obsidian stele for Alioune Diop -- Passage -- References -- Supreme mask -- The virtue of fireflies -- Rumination -- Time to speak -- Course -- Dyali -- Rapacious space -- Phantasms -- Laughable -- Craters -- Conventicles -- Islands speak -- Like a misunderstood salvation -- Ruminatings of calderas -- Through -- The sleeping woman rock, or Beautiful like the exasperation of the secession -- Favor from the trade winds (prose for the sun) -- For a fiftieth anniversary -- Configurations.
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