<P>Aim&#233; C&#233;saire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. This long poem was the beginning of C&#233;saire's quest for n&#233;gritude, and it became an anthem of Blacks around the world. Commentary on C&#233;saire's work has often focused on its Cold War and anticolonialist rhetoric—material that C&#233;saire only added in 1956. The original...
<P>The Complete Poetry of Aim&#233; C&#233;saire gathers all of Cesaire's celebrated verse into one bilingual edition. The French portion is comprised of newly established first editions of C&#233;saire's poetic &#339;uvre made available in French in 2014 under the title Po&#233;sie, Th&#233;&#226;tre, Essais et Discours, edited by A. J. Arnold and an international team of specialists. To prepare the English...
