Lake Michigan, a series of 19 lyric poems, imagines a prison camp located on the beaches of a Chicago that is privatized, racially segregated, and overrun by a brutal police force. One of his recommended books about exile, migration, and resistance, as shared at The Week magazine:Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé CésaireRead about the other entries on the list.
In powerful and poetic prose, Césaire's 1955 book offers blasting indictments of Europe, its relationship to its colonial subjects, and the hypocrisy of its labeling those subjects barbarians.
--Marshal Zeringue
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