So, I must have some mad, awesome reference skills. The poem that was chosen was the one I found. I actually found this through serendipity after spending sometime in the stacks in the PQ 3919's...
Title:
Laraque, P., & Manno, R. (1988). Camourade: Selected poems. Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press.
This item has a collections of poems that were translated from French. They have the English translation next to the French poem.
Poem:
Night and Day = Nuit Et Jour
we are coming from beyond the shadow
to tell of the great meadow in the night
the peasant and his fear
alone in the savanna
with the sweet potato plant
like a man who's been buried alive
open for me
master at the crossroads
open the gate for me
immense palace of glass from the rain
that the sun radiates and breaks with its fires
a young black girl is kneeling in water
covering herself with her hands
bringing one down upon the other
hide it hide it well
keep it tight
the dust of desolation from the plains
the bald gloom upon emaciated chests
poverty is woven into a matting of ignorance
it's the end of hope's candle inside cabins of despair
we're coming from beyond the shadow
and the volcano of our implacable voice splits earth and sky
liberating a thousand candelabras of light for our task
a thousand wild beasts drinking at the source making friends
a thousand flowers from stars snakeskin of hard diamonds
black like the first night of love
and a rainbow rises fro the people as comrades
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