The Collected Poetry (C a R a F Books) (Hardcover)

by Leopold Sedar Senghor (Author), Melvin Dixon (Translator)

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The Absent Woman (1)
The Absent Woman (2)
The Absent Woman (3)
The Absent Woman (4)
The Absent Woman (5)
The Absent Woman (6)
The Absent Woman (7)
All Day Long ...
And The Sun
As I Was Walking By
Assassinations
At The End Of My Telescope
Before Night Comes
Beyond Eros
Beyond Eros (departure)
Beyond Eros (it Is Time For Me To Go)
Beyond Eros (shadow Song)
Beyond Eros (vacation)
Beyond Eros (visit)
Black Mask
Black Woman
Blues
Camp 1940 (1)
Camp 1940 (2)
Comrade
Congo
Correspondence
Cradled On The Beach
The Death Of The Princess
Departure
Destroyer Of Drums
The Djerban Womenhompson
Elegies (elegy For Aynina Fall 1)
Elegies (elegy For Aynina Fall 2)
Elegies (elegy Of Saudades)
Elegies (elegy Of The Circumcised)
Elegies (elegy Of The Waters)
Elegy For Georges Pompidou (1)
Elegy For Georges Pompidou (2)
Elegy For Georges Pompidou (3)
Elegy For Georges Pompidou (4)
Elegy For Georges Pompidou (5)
Elegy For Georges Pompidou (6)
Elegy For Georges Pompidou (7)
Elegy For Jean-marie
Elegy For Martin Luther King: 1
Elegy For Martin Luther King: 2
Elegy For Martin Luther King: 3
Elegy For Martin Luther King: 4
Elegy For Martin Luther King: 5
Elegy For Philippe-maguilen Senghor (1)
Elegy For Philippe-maguilen Senghor (2)
Elegy For Philippe-maguilen Senghor (3)
Elegy For Philippe-maguilen Senghor (4)
Elegy For Philippe-maguilen Senghor (5)
Elegy For Philippe-maguilen Senghor (6)
Elegy For The Queen Of Sheba: 1
Elegy For The Queen Of Sheba: 2
Elegy For The Queen Of Sheba: 3
Elegy For The Queen Of Sheba: 4
Elegy For The Queen Of Sheba: 5
Elegy Of Carthage (1)
Elegy Of Carthage (2)
Elegy Of Carthage (3)
Elegy Of Carthage (4)
Elegy Of Carthage (5)
Elegy Of Midnight
Elegy Of The Trade Winds
The Enlisted Man's Despair
Ethiopia At The Call Of The Race Of Sheba (1)
Ethiopia At The Call Of The Race Of Sheba (2)
Ethiopia At The Call Of The Race Of Sheba (3)
Ethiopia At The Call Of The Race Of Sheba (4)
Ethiopia At The Call Of The Race Of Sheba (5)
Ethiopia At The Call Of The Race Of Sheba (6)
Ethiopia At The Call Of The Race Of Sheba (7)
Fidelity
Fog
For A Wounded Black Fighter, F. F. I.
Forgetfulness
Fulani Beauty
Garden Of France
The Golden Mornings In Popenguine
Governor Eboue
Harlem Riot
Hurricane
I Am Alone
I Am Tired Now
I Awoke
I Look Over Your Letter
I Love Your Letter
I Shall Come
I'm Reading Mirrors
I've Gone On Retreat
Imaginings, Or Dreaming Of Young Girl
In Memoriam
Interior
It Rained
It's Five O'clock
Joal
The Kaya-magan
Letter To A Poet
Letter To A Prisoner
Letters To The Princess
Liberation
Liminary Poem
Liminary Poem
The Lost Train
Luxembourg 1939
Man And Beast
Mediterranean
The Message
Messages
Mirrors Still
My Greeting
Ndesse
Ndesse Or Blues
The New Sun Greets Me
Night In Sine
Nostalgia
Nurse Emma Payellevile
Offering
Other Songs
Pearls
Porte Doree
Portrait
Prayer For Peace (1)
Prayer For Peace (2)
Prayer For Peace (3)
Prayer For Peace (4)
Prayer For Peace (5)
Prayer Of The Senegalese Soldiers (1)
Prayer Of The Senegalese Soldiers (2)
Prayer Of The Senegalese Soldiers (3)
Prayer Of The Senegalese Soldiers (4)
Prayer Of The Senegalese Soldiers (5)
Prayer To The Masks
The Prebend Gardens
Regeneration
Regrets
Return Of The Prodigal Son (1)
Return Of The Prodigal Son (2)
Return Of The Prodigal Son (3)
Return Of The Prodigal Son (4)
Return Of The Prodigal Son (5)
Return Of The Prodigal Son (6)
Return Of The Prodigal Son (7)
Return Of The Prodigal Son (8)
Return Of The Prodigal Son (9)
Returning From Popenguine
Sadness In May
Shaka (song 1)
Shaka (song 2)
Sleepless Night
Snow In Paris
Song For Jackie Thompson
Song Of The Initiate
Songs For Signare
Spleen
Spring
Spring Song (1)
Spring Song (2)
Spring Song (3)
Suddenly Startled
Swarms
Taga For Mbaye Dyob
Teddungal
Thiaroye
This Morning
Time
To A Black Woman With Blond Hair
To A Caribbean Woman
To A Dark Girl
To Death
To New York: 1
To New York: 2
To New York: 3
To The Black American Troops
To The Music Of Koras And Balaphon (1)
To The Music Of Koras And Balaphon (2)
To The Music Of Koras And Balaphon (3)
To The Music Of Koras And Balaphon (4)
To The Music Of Koras And Balaphon (5)
To The Music Of Koras And Balaphon (6)
To The Music Of Koras And Balaphon (7)
To The Music Of Koras And Balaphon (8)
To The Music Of Koras And Balaphon (9)
To The Senegalese Soldiers Who Died For France
Totem
Touraine Springtime
Trumpets Of The Crowned Cranes
Vertigo
What And How
What Are You Doing?
Why
Women Of France
You Again
You Are Bored
You Speak
Your Letter
Your Letter On The Bed
Your Night, My Night
Your Tremoring Letter
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Description
The complete poems of Leopold Sedar Senghor, possibly Africa's most famous poet, are offered in translation for the first time in this bilingual edition. The book, representing the culmination of a lifetime of work, includes "Lost Poems", a collection of Senghor's earliest work. Senghor's poetry contrasts the lushness and wonder of Africa's past with the alienation and loss associated with assimilation into European culture. Co-founder of the negritude literary movement, Senghor is concerned that ways be provided for African and European cultures to enrich each other while preserving their own cultural identities. His poetry, alive with sensual imagery, reclaims his ancestral heritage and celebrates African culture. He writes with an awareness of his readers, preparing them to receive his culture and its values. With emotional power, he draws the reader deep into his world. In his introduction, translator Melvin Dixon places Senghor's writing in a historical perspective by relating it to his political inolvement. Dixon also elaborates on the ways in which the poems chronicle Senghor's own development as an intellectual, particularly on his struggles with issues of self and cultural identity. Dixon's translation preserves the integrity of Senghor's work by retaining, in the original, words and expressions unique to Senghor's African French, expressions whose meaning would be compromised in translation.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 704 pages
• Publisher: Univ of Virginia Pr (December 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 081391275X
• ISBN-13: 978-0813912752
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6.2 x 1.9 inches
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