Une poésie solaire, de la Guinée au Canada.
Louise-Amada D. was eight years old when she learned that she had already had a little brother.
His name was René, and he lived only ten days, in Guinea, on the other side of the Atlantic. Upon discovering his existence, the author immediately mourns his loss. René de cendres blanches whispers this emptiness in short, strikingly beautiful poems.
René, part shadow, part sun, becomes the phantom thread with which the poet stitches together her story. She recounts the death of her father, her departure for Canada, her mother’s return to Africa, mourning, loss and loneliness, but also the birth of her daughters, the indigo of her mother’s fabrics and the melodies of the lullabies she had not forgotten. A braider of hair and memories, Louise-Amada D. sings of an exile that reconnects with joy.
