Tuesday, June 2, 2015

A Poem For Jacques Roumain

Enjoy a short tribute to Jacques Roumain, written by his African-American friend and literary giant, Langston Hughes. I believe this poem and numerous other fascinating aspects of Jacques Roumain's life and work can be found in Fowler's A Knot in the Thread: The Life and Work of Jacques Roumain.

Always 
You will be 
Man
Finding out about
The ever bigger world

Always you will be

Hand that links
Erzulie to the Pope,
Damballa to Lenin
Haiti to the universe

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