Day 86– PenPositive Reading Campaign – ‘Mississippi’ By French Poet from Martinique, Aime Cesaire

Today on Penpositive Reading campaign I read the poem ‘Mississipi’ by the French poet Aimé Fernand David Césaire (26 June 1913 – 17 April 2008). Aime was a Francophone and French poet, author and politician from Martinique. He was “one of the founders of the négritude movement in Francophone literature” Aimé Césaire was born in Basse-Pointe, Martinique, in 1913. He considered himself of Igbo descent … Continue reading Day 86– PenPositive Reading Campaign – ‘Mississippi’ By French Poet from Martinique, Aime Cesaire

Day-86-Penpositive Reading Campaign-Mississippi By the French Poet Aime Cesaire

Too bad for you men who don’t notice that my eyes remember slings and black flags which murder with each blink of my Mississipi lashes Too bad for you men who do not see who do not see anything not even the gorgeous railway signals formed under my eyelids by the black and red discs of the coral snake that my munificence coils in my … Continue reading Day-86-Penpositive Reading Campaign-Mississippi By the French Poet Aime Cesaire