Nocturnes
Night poems in two movements: songs for a signare — the old Gorée term for a lady of the Afro-Portuguese households — reworked from a sequence Senghor had published in 1949, and a set of elegies on midnight, on his dead, and on the circumcision rites by which a Serer boy is made a man. Instruments are named at the head of poems as direction rather than decoration, and the long verset line is cut for a voice speaking aloud. Written as he moved from the French National Assembly toward the presidency of an independent Senegal, and the last book of his major poetry.
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