Cadastre - Softcover
Cadastre
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- PublisherAperture
- Publication date1972
- ISBN 10 089388085X
- ISBN 13 9780893880859
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages159
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Cadastre
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The Third Press
(1973)
ISBN 10: 089388085X
ISBN 13: 9780893880859
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Book Description paperback. 1st edition. New York. 1973. August 1973. The Third Press. 1st American Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers.Simulataneously Published in Cloth. 089388085x. Translated from the French by Emile Snyder & Sanford Upson. Introduction by Emile Snyder. 141 pages. paperback. Jacket design by Bennie Arrington. keywords: Poetry Caribbean Martinique Translated Black. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A cadastre' is an official register of the quantity, value, and ownership of real estate used in apportioning taxes. But where does a Black man, born in the New World, find his name, genealogy and estate in the cadastre of history? Only in the plundered continent of Africa. In all his poetry CEsaire seeks to recover the roots from which he and his Black brothers in the West Indies and the Americas have been torn. Each poem is a safari into the past, each word an evocation, in some way, of Africa often through her flora and fauna which are named with precision, anguish, and love. This is a world reconstructed even beyond genesis: a marriage of birds, fishes, insects with the saps of trees and the furrows of the earth, consummated under the erect majesty of the original eye' - the sun, overseeing history. But history is made by men and in these poems CEsaire vents his anger at those who had presumed they could expropriate for themselves both the natural and the human order. As early as Return To My Native Land' (1939) the poet had written: my memory is circled with blood.' In CADASTRE, which represents the poet's work from 1945 to 1959, the blood coagulates into specific images of torture, of burnt flesh, of vitiated dreams - and also, of an insatiable love waiting for the propitious moment to express itself among men of all races freed from stupidity, greed, and hatred. inventory #18739 Very Good in Wrappers.Simulataneously Published in Cloth. Seller Inventory # z18739
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