Edmond Laforest
Edmond Laforest 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, Sonnets-Médaillons, 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.
