Dear Editor,
“At the end of the small hours”. The phrase that is reiterated many times in Aime Cesaire’s “Notebook on a return to my native land” served as the departure point for some of the greatest lyrical and revolutionary verse ever to be written.
Aime Cesaire is now dead. A light that declined into that final darkness at the end of his 94 years. The great poet and essayist whom Derek Wallcott said he expected to have been awarded the Nobel Prize died in his native Martinique after a long life of political action and reflection.
