First Line: BLESS YOU, MOTHER! %I HEAR YOUR VOICE AS I SURRENDER TO THE Last Line: THE WELLS AND MIRAGES ON THE TANN SALT FLATS %AND YOUR CHIN TREMBLED UNDER SWOLLEN, TWISTED LIPS Subject(s): NEGRITUDE (LITERARY MOVEMENT);
Poem Sources:
THE COLLECTED POETRY. MELVIN DIXON (TR.) SENGHOR, LEOPOLD SEDAR (1991)