The Song of the Black Woman, 1976
Translated poems

WOMAN IN THE RAINY SEASON

The Baobab
Into the Black Woman’s Dream
Before the Flamboyants Bloomed
Woman in the Rainy Season

GAZING AT THE OCEAN

An Event by the Lake
Gazing at the Ocean

THE LIGHT OF THE SLAVES

The Light of the Slaves

here my providence has led me
gazing at the sun
with eyes fixed on Africa
the power of the tom-tom
in the eyes of the Signares