And on the seventh slept a deep (*) Negro sleep," in his poem "To New York" from his collection Éthiopiques.
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]