Entries from April 2008

21 April, 2008

Aimé Fernand David Césaire (1913 to 2008) – A Tribute

“Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge…What presides over the poem is not the most lucid intelligence, the sharpest sensibility or the subtlest feelings, but experience as a whole.”
(via A Poetics of Anticolonialism)
Photo from AP
The much loved and revered poet, author and politician Aimé Césaire was laid to rest in Martinique [...]