Black
Raincoast Books
Available: 04/05/06
5.32 x 8.04
9781551929033
CDN $18.95
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Canadian Title
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The long-awaited new work from one of Canada's leading intellectuals and poets, Black is a brilliant and fiery look at race and culture. Its genesis is Clark's time at Duke University in the late '90s; that experience unleashed political and personal outrage. This poetry is white-hot with honesty and anger. It is shocking, transgressive-and ultimately transforming.
"Whylah Falls is a scintillating display of language. Clarke skillfully weaves together the mythic tapestry of his African-American Loyalist community, the Bible, blues, black argot, the whole spectrum of poetry both classical and modern dance together with the energy of a Stravinsky symphony." --Toronto Star
George Elliott Clarke (Toronto) is the E. J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto. His awards include the Portia White Prize, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Fellowship, a Governor General's Award for Poetry, the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Achievement Award and a Trudeau Foundation Fellowship. Whylah Falls was a CBC Canada Reads finalist.
