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Daniel Thaly (1878-1950), a Dominican/Martinican poet now chiefly forgotten but whose verses had won him extensive fame in the early twentieth century, commemorated the tragedy of Mont Pelée through poems whose evocation of the Antillean landscape is etched with the searing pain of the loss of so many friends when the town of St. Pierre…