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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| 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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| Pubblicazione: | Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2008 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (87 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 811.54 |
| Soggetto topico: | Blacks - Canada |
| Canadian poetry - Black authors | |
| Altri autori: |
FiorentinoJon Paul
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Blues and bliss |
| ISBN: | 1-299-31310-8 |
| 1-55458-234-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910154967303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Laurier poetry series.