Words of a poet

This collection of major texts opens with: Contemporary Aesthetics: romantic and neo-surrealist; from prose poem to poetic prose a contribution by Victor M. HOUNTONDJI to the works of the 7th World Congress of Poets of Marrakech MOROCCO (14-20 October 1984) which took place under the Presidency of Léopold Sédar SENGHOR former President of Senegal and the High-Patronage of King HASSAN II with the participation of eminent international poets such as the Argentine Jorge Luis BORGES the Indian KRISHNA SRINIVAS and others still It is followed by an exclusive interview with Mr. Mohamed El AMINE a Letter to a Poet-President or The Major Elegies of Leopold Sedar Senghor: a question of methodology Our detractors have fallen into sophistry: an exclusive interview with Leopold Sedar Senghor a text In Memory of François MITTERRAND etc. In his Foreword Victor HOUNTONDJI summarizes this work with these words: It remains for me to say that written or collected by me or written on me these words are words which are dear to me and which I enjoy according to the word of Rainer-Maria RILKE as a natural possession me the poet.