23379: Vedrine: Love And Other Poems By Haitian Youths (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: E Vedrine <evedrine@hotmail.com>


LOVE AND OTHER POEMS BY HAITIAN YOUTHS
73 p.

Compiled by Paul GERMAIN
© 2004

ISBN 0-9745821-1-5
Library of Congress Control # 2003117072


Authors:

AUBIN, Jonas St.
BASTIEN, Bernadin
BIENNESTIN, Célemme
CHARLES, JB
CIMÉA, Evens
DESSIN, Erlia
DORVIL, Gems
FORTUNÉ, Elie
GERMAIN, Paul E.
GERMAIN, Samson
GUSTAVE, Neslyn Josh
JACQUES, Ebed
JEAN-BAPTISTE, Charles
JEAN-BAPTISTE, Judeline
JOACHIM, Jean-Dany
JOCELYN, Fabiola
LAMONTAGNE, Sandra
LOSIUS, Remylus
MAISONNEUVE, Rubens
MONT-LOUIS, Fabrice
MORENCY, Mario
NORVILUS, Ruth
PAUL, Farah
SAINT-AUBIN, Jonas
SAINTERLING, Wilguens
VEDRINE, Emmanuel W.

“This collection of poems represents poetry at its blossoming twenty-four
poets contribute to this volume and almost all of them express love as a
longing that entails both disappointment and pleasure in life. As Haiti
commemorates the bicentennial of its independence from colonial bondage – an
independence gained through valorous struggles and sacrifices on the part of
former slaves – as the country is still mired in a self-destructive,
perennial power struggle within the petit-bourgeois and dominant classes
that have been controlling the nation’s destiny since independence; and as
the whole world is engulfed in wars of domination and alienation, it is
refreshing to hear these new voices of poets who reclaim what is of utmost
importance in life: the right to dream. Poetry is the ultimate force that
sustains hope when everything else is in peril.”

-- Tontongi, editor of the trilingual journal

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