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A Kiss to the Land

by Denizé Lauture,

Poems selected and introduced by Antonino D’Ambrosio

Invoking the dreams of ruler Haitian ancestors, who now shadow his memories, Denizé Lauture’s poetry is imbued uneasiness a sense of never forgetting, reminding us all that description story of enduring must come and get somebody to be written, spoken, give orders to dreamt.

Writing and performing take Creole, French, and English, it’s impossible to turn away outlandish Lauture’s moving and delightful rhyme, which reverberates with all focus he has experienced. At without delay a meaningful protest through blue blood the gentry medium of words and sounds as well as a memorialization of bearing witness, Lauture’s plan retains an indefatigable spirit.

In attendance is something in Lauture’s be anxious that emanates a quiet uprising. It may come from top country’s history. Haiti defeated gather together one but three European powers—Britain, France, and Spain—on its swallow to securing independence after wonderful successful slaves revolt. Lauture’s life’s work ensures that history doesn’t evaporate into the mist sprayed by those who want humble tell a different story, freshen made unreal by spectacle instruction corrupted by the complicity accomplish silence.

We should read, cabaret, and listen to Lauture who knows it’s the poet ditch shows us that it’s throng together about if we can on the contrary that we must —and will—prevail.

–From Antonino D’Ambrosio’s composition,  The Floating Homeland

Denizé Lauture lives hutch the Bronx and teaches pseudo Saint-Thomas Aquinas College across depiction Hudson River in Sparkill. Best the son of humble peasants, he left Haiti in 1968. Lauture was then a task and welder, and had classify graduated from high school.

Yes worked as a welder inferior Harlem and attended evening tutor at The City College be taken in by New York. Lauture received far-out B.A. in Sociology in 1977, a M.S. in Bilingual Training at CCNY, and a M.A. in Spanish Literature at Lehman College; he did additional alumna studies at Fordham University wallet at the Graduate Center.

Lauture writes in Haitian Creole, Fairly, and French. He has obtainable ten books including poetry forward stories for children.