Dear all,
I had asked all of you sometime back, about a poem by Martin Carter, the Guyanese poet. Well I have managed to find a portion of it, thanks to a friend, but despite hunting, still haven't been able to lay my hands on the complete poem. Please let me know if this rings any bells or if any of you have access to this collection. The web is surprisingly unhelpful when it comes to Carter's poetry, except a few well known ones.
Aditi
PS-The excerpt itself is quite beautiful, I think---------------------------------------
But I laugh at them --
I laugh because I know they cannot kill meNor kill my thoughts, nor murder what I write.
I am a man living among my people
Proud as the tree the axeman cannot tumble --So if my people live I too must live!
And they will live, I tell you they will live!
But these...I laugh at them
But I tell youLike a tide from the heart of things
Inexorably and inevitably
A day will come
If I do not live to see that day My son will see it
If he does not see that day His son will see it.
And it will come circling the world like fire.
It will come to this land and every landAnd when it comes I'll come alive again
And laugh again and walk out of this prison.
--- Martin Carter
from "Letter I,", Poems of Resistance (1954)
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