Canticles III (MMXXII) : (contexts of Africadian theological praxis) / George Elliott Clarke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarke, George Elliott, author.

Series:

Essential poets ; 298.

Essential poets series ; 298

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Poetry.

Slavery.

Slave trade--Poetry.

Slave trade.

Black people--Race identity--Poetry.

Black people.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Poetry.

Enslaved persons.

Black people--Race identity.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xiv, 487 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Canticles 3 (2022)

Canticles three (2022)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Guernica Editions, 2022.

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781771837538

1771837535

OCLC:

1305299471