Edmond Laforest
Edmond Laforest (20 June 1876 – 17 October 1915) 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.