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RIP Aimé Césaire

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"Partir.
Comme il y a des hommes-hyènes et des hommes-
panthères, je serais un homme-juif
un homme-cafre
un homme-hindou-de-Calcutta
un homme-de-Harlem-qui-ne-vote-pas

l'homme-famine, l'homme-insulte, l'homme-torture
on pouvait à n'importe quel moment le saisir le rouer
de coups, le tuer - parfaitement le tuer - sans avoir
de compte à rendre à personne sans avoir d'excuses à présenter à personne
un homme-juif
un homme-pogrom
un chiot
un mendigot

mais est-ce qu'on tue le Remords, beau comme la
face de stupeur d'une dame anglaise qui trouverait
dans sa soupière un crâne de Hottentot?"

― Michael White, Thursday, 17 April 2008 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

Easy for you to say.

― James Morrison, Thursday, 17 April 2008 23:00 (eighteen years ago)

He might be going to the Le Panthéon.

― Michael White, Friday, 18 April 2008 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

"the le" lol

― Michael White, Friday, 18 April 2008 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

Seriously, though, have been looking him up from this thread and now want to read his stuff. Any hints on good English versions?

― James Morrison, Saturday, 19 April 2008 02:01 (eighteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure I read a poem of his (possibly the one M. White quotes?) in Poets for the Millennium and liked it.

― Casuistry, Saturday, 19 April 2008 05:21 (eighteen years ago)


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