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Canticles III MMXXII 298 Essential Poets series
by [Clarke, George Elliott]
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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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- Guernica Editions Brand
- Nov 1, 2022 Pub Date:
- 9781771837538 ISBN-13:
- 1771837535 ISBN-10:
- English Language
- 9 in * 1.3 in * 6 in Dimensions:
- 2 lb Weight:
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