An informal poll
Jun. 22nd, 2020 08:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dhampyresaWithout 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.
Just trying to get a sense of how much context I need to give to quoting in the Black Panther fic I am writing.
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Date: 2020-06-22 07:56 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2020-07-01 11:45 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2020-07-01 11:50 pm (UTC)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.