Poetry
Morte saison
Not translated into English
Gnoussira Analla · 1992
Synopsis
A collection of some forty pages, published in Lomé, none of whose poems is quoted. Togolese critics hear in it a new song, in a language more or less freed from the formal constraints that bound the country's first poets; a Norwegian encyclopedia describes in it a quiet poetry, made of wordplay and finds of language, which has often been compared to that of Jacques Prévert.
Context
The Bibliothèque nationale de France knows of only one edition of the collection, published in Lomé in 1992 by the Nouvelles Éditions africaines, in forty-seven pages, a date also given by the Norwegian encyclopaedia. Togolese surveys nevertheless date it to 1980 and make it the first song of a generation of poets more concerned with writing than with declaration; no edition from that year has been found. It slightly precedes the years of political ferment, which the dramatists exploited more than the poets.
Who it is for
A slim collection of poems in French, little distributed outside Togo, which can be read in a single sitting.
Prizes and reception
His best-known collection, to which overviews of the country trace a renewal of its poetry.
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