03610nam 2200697Ia 450 991015496730332120200520144314.01-299-31310-81-55458-234-210.51644/9781554582341(CKB)2430000000002815(EBL)685622(OCoLC)352540830(SSID)ssj0000478048(PQKBManifestationID)11296880(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000478048(PQKBWorkID)10419401(PQKB)11036284(MiAaPQ)EBC685622(CaPaEBR)425593(CaBNvSL)slc00222381(MiAaPQ)EBC3262356(MdBmJHUP)muse14677(PPN)242835864(DE-B1597)667226(DE-B1597)9781554582341(FR-PaCSA)88878655(EXLCZ)99243000000000281520081001d2008 uy pengur|n|---|||||txtccrBlues and bliss the poetry of George Elliott Clarke /selected with an introduction by Jon Paul Fiorentino ; and an afterword by George Elliott Clarke1st ed.Waterloo, Ont. Wilfrid Laurier University Pressc20081 online resource (87 p.)Laurier poetry seriesDescription based upon print version of record.1-55458-684-4 1-55458-060-9 Includes bibliographical references.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; NegationCalculated 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; AcknowledgementsBlues 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 influences-Derek Walcott, Amiri Baraka, and the canon of literary English from Shakespeare to Yeats-and his ""voice throwing,"" and shows how the intersections heLaurier poetry series.Black peopleCanadaPoetryCanadian poetryBlack authorsBlack peopleCanadian poetryBlack authors.811.54Clarke George Elliott906408Fiorentino Jon Paul1759373MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910154967303321Blues and bliss4197813UNINA