Jean from America, Haiti and elsewhere
Audio 48:30
John of America.
© Marie Monfils
By: Yasmine Chouaki
50 mins
Opening all his windows and all his being to the chaos of the world: this is the projectile project of a young poet from a deafening symphony, that of Port-au-Prince.
The verb full of mouths and notches, he writes:
At the dawn of a song of cannons, come to move a few bits of gratuitous flesh.
This street, a plateau where the adventure of breath breaks, a knife that splits the soul of this world ...
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He could say it in another language, but would that be less cruel?
Kanno fenk tanmen sings gentan gen bout vyann gratisticherî k ap dance.
Riyèl sa yon plato kote souf sispann flannen yon kouto k ap tranche nanm latè beni.
Jean d'Amérique
is as cruel as a Haitian alley.
He proves it since
Petite fleur du ghetto
and all its literary prizes, he proves it with his International Poetic Trance Festival in Port-au-Prince, he proves it in the form of a long fictionalized poem, entitled
Soleil à coudre
published c / o Actes Sud and which rings nicely on this
International Francophonie Day.
The musical choices of Jean d'Amérique
Thugga Shit
Ayisyen pa konn jwe
,
Melissa Laveaux
Nan fon bwa
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