In one poem, this man compares a pagan fixation on incense to the taste of blood which he describes as filling him and irritating him, and in another, he declares that his childhood returns in the form of the titular phenomenon, causing him to drink seven glasses of water in vain.  
In one poem, this man compares a pagan fixation on incense to the taste of blood which he describes as filling him and irritating him, and in another, he declares that his childhood returns in the form of the titular phenomenon, causing him to drink seven glasses of water in vain.  In addition to Obsession and Hiccups, another of his poems asserts that "the days themselves have taken the shape of African masks", Position.  The opening poem of one of his collections asks "How many of ME ME ME have diedÂ…since they came that night when the tom tom rolled from rhythm to rhythm", and another of his collections opens with the line "Never will the white man be a black man".  The author of the poetry collections Black Label and Pigments, FTP, name this author who helped found Negritude along with Aime Cesaire and Leopold Senghor.
In one poem, this man compares a pagan fixation on incense to the taste of blood which he describes as filling him and irritating him, and in another, he declares that his childhood returns in the form of the titular phenomenon, causing him to drink seven glasses of water in vain.  
Leon Damas