This author of the volume Nocturnes listed images such as "firm-fleshed ripe fruit" and "somber raptures / of black wine" to celebrate the physicality of his countrywomen, in his poem "Black Woman.
This poet boasts that his blood carries "the stream of seeds to fertilize all the plains of / Byzantium," in an elegy that more sedately ends with him vowing to "sleep the sleep of death that nourishes the Poet." After marrying the white woman Colette Hubert, this poet rededicated a section of his major collection to a generic woman with the honorific "Signare." This poet advised the title city to open its eyes and ears "to God / who in one burst of saxophone laughter / Created heaven and earth in six days, / And on the seventh slept a deep (*) Negro sleep," in his poem "To New York" from his collection Éthiopiques. This author of the volume Nocturnes listed images such as "firm-fleshed ripe fruit" and "somber raptures / of black wine" to celebrate the physicality of his countrywomen, in his poem "Black Woman." For 10 points, name this co-founder of the Negritude movement, a poet who served as the first president of Senegal.
This poet boasts that his blood carries "the stream of seeds to fertilize all the plains of / Byzantium," in an elegy that more sedately ends with him vowing to "sleep the sleep of death that nourishes the Poet."
Léopold Senghor [or Léopold Sédar Senghor]