Poetry
Piments sang
Not translated into English
Jean-Paul Nyunaï · 1963
Synopsis
A slim collection of poems, thirty pages, printed in 1963, whose subtitle dates the texts to 1953. The few pages that discuss it describe a committed, nationalist poetry.
Context
The collection appeared in Paris in 1963 with Debresse, who had published its author's first book two years earlier. It runs to about thirty pages, and its subtitle states that the poems date from 1953, ten years before they were printed. A page of the website Peuple Sawa, devoted to the letters of the coast, spells it Pigments sang and places it among Nyunaï's nationalist writings, together with other titles by him absent from the catalogue of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. It also names him among the contributors to the journal run by René Philombe and Élolongué Epanya Yondo.
Who it is for
In French, a very short collection. It helps to know that these poems waited ten years for publication.
Prizes and reception
No prize found, and no reissue or translation recorded in the BnF catalogue.