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Canticles
- Title
- Canticles / George Elliott Clarke.
- Author
- Clarke, George Elliott
- Publication
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; Lancaster (UK) : Guernica Editions, 2016.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 23-935 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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- Description
- volumes <1-3 in 6>; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Canticles is a lyric-styled epic. Book I (part 1-2) of The Canticles puts into dialogue -- as dramatic monologues -- those who fostered the transatlantic slave trade, or who demonized the image of the Negro in the Occident; as well as those who struggled for liberation and/or anti-racism. In this work, Dante can critique Christopher Columbus and Frederick Douglass can upbraid Abraham Lincoln; Elizabeth Barrett Browning can muse on her African racial heritage and its implications for child-bearing, while Karl Marx can excoriate Queen Victoria. The second book or testament -- Canticles II, part 1 (MMXIX) and Canticles II, part 2 (MMXX) -- issues re-readings (revisions, rewrites) of scriptures crucial to the emergent (Anglophone) African Diaspora in the Americas. Canticles II forms the second part of the trilogy, being properly irreverent where necessary, but never blasphemous. It is scripture become what it always is, really, anyway: Poetry. 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.--
- Series Statement
- Essential poets series ; 217, 247, 263, 281, 298
- Uniform Title
- Poems. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Poems.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Historical poetry.
- Poetry.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Volume [1]. Canticles I. [Part 1]. MMXVI ; [part 2] MMXVII -- Volume [2]. Canticles II. [Part 1]. MMXIX ; [part 2] MMXX -- Volume [3]. Canticles III. [Part 1]. MMXXII ; [part 2] MMXXIII.
- Call Number
- Sc E 23-935
- ISBN
- 9781550719123
- 1550719122
- 9781771831901
- 1771831901
- 9781771834094
- 1771834099
- 9781771835480
- 1771835486
- 9781771837538
- 1771837535
- 9781550719147 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781550719130 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781771831918 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781771831932 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2016938889
- OCLC
- 946766092
- Author
- Clarke, George Elliott, author.
- Title
- Canticles / George Elliott Clarke.
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; Lancaster (UK) : Guernica Editions, 2016.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Essential poets series ; 217, 247, 263, 281, 298
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 23-935