This is yet another old one (I've been sober for ten years now, so the very first line dates it by at least that much). Getting drunk on white wine and reading Countee Cullen for three straight days, I feel like I should walk out my door and straight onto the Champs-Elysee at sunset with my on-and-then-off, found-and-then-lost love (who is probably falling in love in the French Quarter right now). Mon Dieu, ma cherie, je voudrais avez-tu ici maintenant. Je pense que je t'aime, vraiment. How many times will it kill me To let you go your way?
I don`t know french all that well, sucked at it in High school. Just couldn`t get the hang of it. I might,,,kinda get the jist of it. BUT,,,No, maybe not, really, sometime you will have to explain, this to me and my stupidity.
As far as the Harlem Renaissance and romance are concerned, keep in mind that: As a philosophical mid-wife to a generation of younger Negro poets, writers, and artists, Alain Locke was the ideological mastermind behind the Harlem Renaissance, an artistic explosion in the decade following World War I. In its mythic and utopian sense, Harlem was the race capital and the largest Negro American community in the world. The Harlem Renaissance, consequently, presented itself as a microcosm or self-portraiture of black culture to America and to the world. The movement was an effusion of art borne of the experience of even ordinary living that has epic depth and lyric intensity. As editor of the anthology known as The New Negro, published in December 1925, Locke contributed the title essay, which served as a manifesto. For Locke, art ought to contribute to the improvement of life a pragmatist aesthetic principle Richard Shusterman calls ameliorism. The Harlem Renaissance known also as the New Negro Movement sought to advance freedom and equality for blacks through art. It was not just a great creative outburst in the stimulating atmosphere of the 1920s, it was actually a highly self-conscious modern artistic movement. Locke himself spoke of a race pride, race genius and the race-gift. This race pride was to be cultivated through developing a distinctive culture, a hybrid of African and African American elements. Googler "Alain Locke: Baha'i Philosopher" for more info.-Ron Price, Tasmania
