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Autore |
Clarke George Elliott |
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Titolo |
Blues and bliss : the poetry of George Elliott Clarke / / selected with an introduction by Jon Paul Fiorentino ; and an afterword by George Elliott Clarke |
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Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-299-31310-8 |
1-55458-234-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (87 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Soggetti |
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Blacks - Canada |
Canadian poetry - Black authors |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Table of Contents; Foreword; Biographical Note; Introduction; Salvation Army Blues; Halifax Blues; Hammonds Plains African Baptist Church; Campbell Road Church; Watercolour for Negro Expatriates in France; Look Homeward, Exile; The Wisdom of Shelley; The River Pilgrim: A Letter; Blank Sonnet; The Symposium; Rose Vinegar; Blues for X; Vision of Justice; Chancy's Menu; Chancy's Drinking Song; Beatrice's Defence; George & Rue: Pure, Virtuous Killers; Ballad of a Hanged Man; Child Hood I; Child Hood II; Hard Nails; Public Enemy; The Killing; Trial I; Trial II; Avowals; Negation |
Calculated OffensiveÀ Dany Laferrière; Haligonian Market Cry; Nu(is)ance; Onerous Canon; April 1, 19-; from Blue Elegies; Blues de Malcolm; May ushers in with lilac; George & Rue: Coda; Letter to a Young Poet; Of Black English, or Pig Iron Latin; Africadian Experience; Afterword: Let Us Now Attain Polyphonous Epiphanies, George Elliott Clarke; Acknowledgements |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Blues singer, preacher, cultural critic, exile, Africadian, high modernist, spoken word artist, Canadian poet-these are but some of the voices of George Elliott Clarke. In a selection of Clarke's best work from his early poetry to his most recent, Blues and Bliss: The Poetry of George Elliott Clarke offers readers an impressive cross-section of those voices. Jon Paul Fiorentino's introduction focuses on this polyphony, his |
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influences-Derek Walcott, Amiri Baraka, and the canon of literary English from Shakespeare to Yeats-and his ""voice throwing,"" and shows how the intersections he |
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