LEADER 03598nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910154967303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-299-31310-8 010 $a1-55458-234-2 024 7 $a10.51644/9781554582341 035 $a(CKB)2430000000002815 035 $a(EBL)685622 035 $a(OCoLC)352540830 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000478048 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11296880 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000478048 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10419401 035 $a(PQKB)11036284 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC685622 035 $a(CaPaEBR)425593 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00222381 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3262356 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse14677 035 $a(PPN)242835864 035 $a(DE-B1597)667226 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781554582341 035 $a(FR-PaCSA)88878655 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000002815 100 $a20081001d2008 uy p 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBlues and bliss $ethe poetry of George Elliott Clarke /$fselected with an introduction by Jon Paul Fiorentino ; and an afterword by George Elliott Clarke 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aWaterloo, Ont. $cWilfrid Laurier University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (87 p.) 225 1 $aLaurier poetry series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-55458-684-4 311 $a1-55458-060-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aTable 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 327 $aCalculated OffensiveA? Dany Laferrie?re; 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 330 $aBlues singer, preacher, cultural critic, exile, Africadian, high modernist, spoken word artist, Canadian poet-these are but some of the voices of George Elliott Clarke. In a selection of Clarke's best work from his early poetry to his most recent, Blues and Bliss: The Poetry of George Elliott Clarke offers readers an impressive cross-section of those voices. Jon Paul Fiorentino's introduction focuses on this polyphony, his influences-Derek Walcott, Amiri Baraka, and the canon of literary English from Shakespeare to Yeats-and his ""voice throwing,"" and shows how the intersections he 410 0$aLaurier poetry series. 606 $aBlacks$zCanada$vPoetry 606 $aCanadian poetry$xBlack authors 615 0$aBlacks 615 0$aCanadian poetry$xBlack authors. 676 $a811.54 700 $aClarke$b George Elliott$0906408 701 $aFiorentino$b Jon Paul$01759373 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154967303321 996 $aBlues and bliss$94197813 997 $aUNINA