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Canticles III

MMXXIII

George Elliott Clarke

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English
Guernica Editions,Canada
08 March 2024
In Zanzibar, in 2008, George Elliott Clarke began to write his ""Canticles,"" an epic poem treating the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Imperial and colonial conquest, and the resistance to all these evils. That is the subject of Canticles I (MMXVI) and (MMXVII). In Canticles II (MMXIX) and (MMXX), Clarke rewrites significant scriptures from an oral and ""African"" or ""Africadian"" perspective. Now, in Canticles III (MMXXII) and (MMXXIII), Clarke shifts focus-from world history and theology - to the specific history and bios associated with the creation of the African (""Africadian"") Baptist Association of Nova Scotia. By so doing he concludes the most remarkable epic ever essayed in Canadian letters - an amalgam of Pound and Walcott - but entirely and inimitably his own.
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Imprint:   Guernica Editions,Canada
Country of Publication:   Canada
Dimensions:   Height: 228mm,  Width: 152mm, 
Weight:   1g
ISBN:   9781771838399
ISBN 10:   1771838396
Series:   Essential Poets series
Pages:   200
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Acclaimed for his narrative lyric suites (Whylah Falls and Execution Poems), his lyric ""colouring books"" (Blue, Black, Red, and Gold), his selected poems (Blues and Bliss), his opera libretti and plays (Beatrice Chancy and Trudeau: Long March, Shining Path), George Elliott Clarke now presents us with his epic-in-progress, Canticles, a work that views History as a web of imperialism, enslavement, and insurrection. A native Africadian, Canada's 7th Parliamentary Poet Laureate ranges the atlas and ransacks the library to ink lines unflinching before Atrocity and unquiet before Oppression.

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