{"id":544,"date":"2008-04-17T03:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=544"},"modified":"2008-04-17T03:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T11:17:00","slug":"aime-cesaire-1913-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/aime-cesaire-1913-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire (1913-2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IwnSQPl-J_I\/SAcytBvmLcI\/AAAAAAAAAjc\/fZkVttt59I4\/s1600-h\/Aim%C3%A9_C%C3%A9saire_Sipa.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" data-src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IwnSQPl-J_I\/SAcytBvmLcI\/AAAAAAAAAjc\/fZkVttt59I4\/s400\/Aim%C3%A9_C%C3%A9saire_Sipa.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5190172844711357890\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">  Sipa \u2013Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\" style=\"width: 330px;\">\n<div class=\"description\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">News just in that he great Martiniquan poet Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire died this morning in Fort-de-France, Martinique where he had been hospitalized for a week. <a href=\"http:\/\/bibliobs.nouvelobs.com\/2008\/04\/17\/le-long-cri-daime-cesaire\">Here<\/a> a link to a 1994 interview in the Nouvel Observateur.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>oh friendly light<br \/>oh fresh source of light<br \/>those who have invented neither powder nor compass<br \/>those who could harness neither steam nor electricity<br \/>those who explored neither the seas nor the sky but those<br \/>without whom the earth would not be the earth<br \/>gibbosity all the more beneficent as the bare earth even more earth<br \/>silo where that which is earthiest avout earth ferments and ripens<br \/>my negritude is not a stone, its deafness hurled against the clamor of day<br \/>my negritude is not a leukoma of dead liquid over the earth&#8217;s dead eye<br \/>my negritude is neither tower nor cathedral<br \/>it takes root in the red flesh of the soil<br \/>it takes root in the ardent flesh of the sky<br \/>it breaks through opaque prostration with its upright patience<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upne.com\/0-8195-6452-4.html\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Notebook of a Return to the Native Land<\/span><\/a><br \/>    translated by Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sipa \u2013Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire News just in that he great Martiniquan poet Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire died this morning in Fort-de-France, Martinique where he had been hospitalized for a week. Here a link to a 1994 interview&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}