Cadastre (Bilingual - English, French) by Cesaire, Aimesnyder, Emile - 1973

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… Read More