Aime Cesaire's 'Solar Throat Slashed'

“BLUES”

Aguacero
beautiful musician
unclothed at the foot of a tree
amidst the lost harmonies
close to our defeated memories
amidst our hands of defeat
and peoples of a strength strange
we let our eyes hang
and native
loosing the leading-rein of a sorrow
we wept. 

                   - Aime Cesaire

Solar Throat Slashed The Unexpurgated 1948 Edition Aimé Césaire; A. James Arnold,  ed.; Clayton Eshleman, ed.;  A. James Arnold, trans.;  Clayton Eshleman, trans. Wesleyan Poetry Series Wesleyan University Press 2011 • 172 pp. 6 x 9" Poetry / Literary Criticism - French / Colonialism; Post-Colonialism $26.95 Hardcover, 978-0-8195-7070-3