Edmond Laforest Explained

Edmond Laforest (20 June 1876  - 17 October 1915)^[1] was a Haitian poet.

Life and works

Born in Jérémie, Laforest was a teacher of French and mathematics. Some of his most noted works are Poèmes Mélancoliques (1901), Sonnets-Médaillons (1909), and Cendres et Flammes.

He killed himself by tying a Larousse dictionary around his neck and jumping off a bridge, to expose how the French language, imposed upon him by colonists, had killed him artistically.^[2]

References

• Book: Schutt-Ainé, Patricia . Haiti: A Basic Reference Book . Librairie Au Service de la Culture . 1994 . Miami, Florida . 978-0-9638599-0-7 . 97 .

Notes and References

1. Book: Donald E. Herdeck. Donald E. Herdeck. Maurice Alcibiade Lubin. Margaret Herdeck. Caribbean Writers: A Bio-bibliographical-critical Encyclopedia. 1979. Three Continents Press. 978-0-914478-74-4. 413.
2. [Henry Louis Gates, Jr]