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The sharp knife of dawn glitters in my hand but how bare is everything-tall tall tree infinite air, the unrelaxing tension of the world and only hope, hope only, the kind eagle soars and wheels in flight.

Martin Carter

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Martin Carter

Martin Carter

Born: June 7, 1927
Died: December 13, 1997 (aged 70)
Bio: Martin Wylde Carter was a Guyanese poet and political activist. Widely regarded as the greatest Guyanese poet, and one of the most important poets of the Caribbean region, Carter is best known for his poems of protest, resistance and revolution.
Known for:
  1. University of Hunger
  2. Poems of succession (1977)
  3. Poems of resistance from British Guiana (1954)

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