This chapter examines the poetic consequences of Will Alexander’s profound global knowledge of mathematical history, demonstrating how his essays on poetics and metaphysics attend to the abusive potential for human reduction that is latent in quantification’s abstractions. In works such as Towards the Primeval Lightning Field, to which I pay particular attention, Alexander exposes European thinkers’ deracinating suppression of numeracy’s multiple, simultaneous roots in China, Egypt, Mesoamerica, and Mesopotamia. Alexander generates a powerful new mathematics (what he calls “Azarian mathematics”) with reference to systems of thought that refuse scarcity as their figurative basis. While drawing attention to Alexander’s many poetic-mathematical interlocutors, I specifically demonstrate how he exponentiates the multiple conflicting legacies of the negritude generation, raising the vatic proclamations of poet-statesmen Aimé Césaire to the power of Senegalese scientist-philosopher Cheikh Anta Diop’s pioneering anti-colonial indigenization of techno-science.