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I
Am Alone
I
am alone in the plains
And in the night
With trees curled up from the cold
And holding tight, elbow to body, one to the other.
I
am alone in the plains
And in the night
With the hopeless pathetic movements of trees
That have lost their leaves to other islands.
I am alone in the plains
And in the night.
I am the solitude of telegraph poles
Along deserted
Roads.
Leopold
Sédhar Senghor
Translated
from the French by Melvin Dixon
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Mount
Whitey is the highest peak (14,494 ft [4,418 m]
above sea level) in the 48 coterminous U.S. states.
It is the culminating summit of the Sierra Nevada, on
the Inyo–Tulare county line, at the east border of Sequoia
National Park in eastern California. The peak was named
for Josiah D. Whitney, and it was first climbed in 1873
by A.H. Johnson, C.D. Begole, and J. Lucas. Its summit
is a gently sloping tablelike surface not yet dissected
by erosion; its slopes are lined with avalanche chutes
and blocks of granite and are devoid of glaciation.
The Kern River Canyon is on the west, and precipitous
streams enter Owens Valley on the east. The Mt. Whitney
Trail is easily the most beaten path in the Sierras,
and perhaps the most popular trail in the United States.
As many as 300 people a day begin the tramp up this
famous 11-mile trail.
The reading occured on April
11-14, 2002 by International
Mountain Guides
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While
Leopold Sédhar Senghor is most well known as Senegal's
skillful president (1960-1981), he is also one of Africa's
most skilled and acclaimed poets. His brilliance was recognized
early as he completed his Baccalaureat in 1927 and received
a scholarship to go to France for further studies. There
Senghor gained French citizenship and was the first African
to complete the agregation de l'Universite exam, allowing
him to teach at both the lycée and university level. Through
his diverse publications, such as Shadow Songs
(1945), Black Hosts (1946), Songs for Naett
(1949), Nocturnes (1961), and Letters in the
Season of Hivernage (1972), Senghor built a name
for himself as one of Africa's premier French language
artisans. As such he became the first African member of
the Académie Française, where he helped form a bridge
between continental and colonial French. The Académie
is widely regarded as the most distinguished French intellectual
association, and is charged with compiling a dictionary
of acceptable new words and usage. There Senghor helped
create a language of expression that at once allows for
the propagation of ethnic and national norms and reaches
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