Canticles III (MMXXII): Volume 298

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

Author: George Elliott Clarke
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Guernica Editions
Published: 11/01/2022
Series: Essential Poets (Ecco)
Pages: 100
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 8.60h x 6.10w x 2.00d
ISBN: 9781771837538