Cahier d'un Retour au Pays Natal

Aime Cesaire, black poet, play, and political activist, was born in 1913 in Martinique in the French Caribbean. In 1936 Cesaire started working on "Cahier," one of his most important poems, which was first published in 1939. A leader of the "Negritude" movement and a major voice of Surrealism, he was a political force in modern anticolonial and Pan-African movements.