Blues and Bliss
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Blues and Bliss

The Poetry of George Elliott Clarke

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Blues and Bliss

The Poetry of George Elliott Clarke

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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 influences—Derek Walcott, Amiri Baraka, and the canon of literary English from Shakespeare to Yeats—and his "voice throwing, " and shows how the intersections here produce a "troubling" of language. He sketches Clarke's primary interest in the negotiation of cultural space through adherence to and revision of tradition and on the finding of a vernacular that begins in exile, especially exile in relation to African-Canadian communities.

In the afterword, Clarke, in an interesting re-spin of Fiorentino's introduction, writes with patented gusto about how his experiences have contributed to multiple sounds and forms in his work. Decrying any grandiose notions of theory, he presents himself as primarily a songwriter.

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Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
9781554582341
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Canadian Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Biographical Note
  4. Introduction
  5. Salvation Army Blues
  6. Halifax Blues
  7. Hammonds Plains African Baptist Church
  8. Campbell Road Church
  9. Watercolour for Negro Expatriates in France
  10. Look Homeward, Exile
  11. The Wisdom of Shelley
  12. The River Pilgrim: A Letter
  13. Blank Sonnet
  14. The Symposium
  15. Rose Vinegar
  16. Blues for X
  17. Vision of Justice
  18. Chancy’s Menu
  19. Chancy’s Drinking Song
  20. Beatrice’s Defence
  21. George & Rue: Pure, Virtuous Killers
  22. Ballad of a Hanged Man
  23. Child Hood I
  24. Child Hood II
  25. Hard Nails
  26. Public Enemy
  27. The Killing
  28. Trial I
  29. Trial II
  30. Avowals
  31. Negation
  32. Calculated Offensive
  33. À Dany Laferrière
  34. Haligonian Market Cry
  35. Nu(is)ance
  36. Onerous Canon
  37. April 1, 19—
  38. from Blue Elegies
  39. Blues de Malcolm
  40. May ushers in with lilac
  41. George & Rue: Coda
  42. Letter to a Young Poet
  43. Of Black English, or Pig Iron Latin
  44. Africadian Experience
  45. Afterword: Let Us Now Attain Polyphonous Epiphanies, George Elliott Clarke
  46. Acknowledgements