An informal poll

[dhampyresa]

Without research, do you know who Léopold Sédar Senghor is?


Just trying to get a sense of how much context I need to give to quoting in the Black Panther fic I am writing.

Comments

[sovay]

Without research, do you know who Léopold Sédar Senghor is?

Yes. I must have been five or six when I read a translation of "Je veux dire ton nom" in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Talking to the Sun: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems for Young People (1985), accompanied by a photograph of the beautiful jasper Fragment of a Queen's Face. It was my favorite poem in the anthology. I looked him up on my own for the first time in high school.

[edit] YAY QUOTING LÉOPOLD SÉDAR SENGHOR IN BLACK PANTHER FIC.

[dhampyresa]

Fragment of a Queen's Face
OMG THAT'S WHAT IT'S CALLED thank you so much! I saw a picture of it once in passing and it has haunted me (in a good way) ever since.

[sovay]

OMG THAT'S WHAT IT'S CALLED thank you so much! I saw a picture of it once in passing and it has haunted me (in a good way) ever since.

You're welcome! It was "Fragment of a head of Queen Tiye" when I was a child, but apparently there are now other contenders. I also love it very much.