Black Woman
A woman is addressed naked, and in the same breath the savanna under a noon sun, ripe fruit, black wine, the wind on a horseman's flank, until the person and the continent can no longer be told apart. The praise moves on the pattern of a Serer oral eulogy, in long unrhymed versets pitched for a speaking voice over the kora. Senghor's most anthologised piece, and the one most argued over for turning the Black woman into a landscape.
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- contained in ↑ Shadow Songs
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