George Elliott Clarke
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George Elliott Clarke, Febraury 12, 1960 - George Elliott Clarke was born in Windsor Plains, Nova Scotia on February 12, 1960. He earned an Honours B.A. in English from the University of Waterloo, an M.A. in English from Dalhousie University and a Ph.D awarded by Queens University. After college, mostra altro he accepted a position as assistant professor of English and Canadian Studies at Duke University, where he taught topics such as nationalism, post-colonialism, and New World African Literature. In September 1998, he transferred to McGill University in Montréal and became the third Seagram Visiting Chair of Canadian Studies for 1998-1999. He also taught at the University of Toronto as an assistant professor in English. At the age of 21, he received first prize in poetry from the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia in 1981. In 1983, he was runner-up for the Bliss Carman Award for Poetry. While studying at Queens, he was named winner of the Archibald Lampman Award for poetry in 1991. While teaching at Duke, in 1998, he won the $25,000 Portia White Prize for Excellence in the Arts, That same year, he was awarded a Bellagio Center Residency by the Rockefeller Foundation of New York City. In 1999, he received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Dalhousie University, and the University of Waterloo Arts Alumni Achievement Award. He is also the recipient of a Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, from University of New Brunswick. On September 9, 2000, Clarke was awarded Outstanding Writer of a Canadian Feature Film, for One Heart Broken Into Song, by the Black Film and Video Network. Clarke has also edited a two volume anthology, Fire on the Water: An Anthology of Black Nova Scotian Writing (1991-92) and is also the editor of Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African-Canadian Literature. In 2001, Clarke was awarded the Governor General's Award for poetry for his work Execution Poems. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out… (2000) — Collaboratore — 301 copie
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival (2010) — Collaboratore — 24 copie
Another English: Anglophone Poems from Around the World (Poets in the World) (2014) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1960-02-12
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Canada
- Luogo di nascita
- Three Mile Plains, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Luogo di residenza
- Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
Three Mile Plains, Nova Scotia, Canada
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Istruzione
- University of Waterloo (BA Hons - English)
Dalhousie University (MA - English)
Queen’s University (PhD - English) - Attività lavorative
- poet
playwright
literary critic
univrsity professor - Organizzazioni
- Duke University
University of Toronto - Premi e riconoscimenti
- OC [Order of Canada]
ONS [Order of Nova Scotia]
Order of Canada (2008)
William P. Hubbard Award for Race Relations from the City of Toronto, 2009
Honorary Fellow, Haliburton Literary Society, 2008
Poet Laureate of Canada (mostra tutto 7)
Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 40
- Opere correlate
- 5
- Utenti
- 531
- Popolarità
- #46,874
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 14
- ISBN
- 80
- Preferito da
- 1
Blue is what happens when you sleep through your moment of
truth
Blue is snuff films screened in classrooms for literary reasons
Blue is coffee from the Blue Mountains of Jamaica
Blue is a moth huddled in the middle of a sugar bowl as the
spoon is plunged in
Blue is Saltwater Spirituals and Deeper Blues; Lush Dreams,
Blue Exile; and Blue
Fatal, foolhardy poetry.
- from Blue Elegies, I.i.
All I ask from poetry is that it let me look through someone else's eyes and see, really see, just a little. That it break and grind the world, deliver it to me dripping in language. That it make me cringe a little. Maybe laugh. Shudder some. Open up a place I have never seen, or a place I have seen every day of my life and never really seen. So, George Elliott Clarke, I salute you. For letting me look through your black Canadian man's eyes for a little while. For these gems. This is what poetry should be. This is what poetry should do.
More than that, it is here done by a man who has read both deeply and widely and who has the raw talent and love of language to stand up and talk back to those he has read, to join the conversation and hold his own. (I was absolutely tickled by the assaults on Ezra Pound.) As might be gathered from the title, this is a profane, pornographic little bundle of poems, and the repeated whore imagery did wear just a little. But again, poetry exists to bring me another world view, male gaze and all.
I loved so many of these it's hard to know which one to memorialize here. My very favorite is "Elegy for Mona States (1958-1999)" but it's too long for my purposes at the moment. Several of my favorites are. I'll go with this one:
Self-Portrait
for Arnold 'Ted' Davidson (1936-1999)
I am the lyrical warrior
who eyes the icy moon
and gulps tear-soured rum,
while etching blues to beguile
a difficult, desired lover,
and who imagines his enemies
gashed and battered by God,
and who drifts, enduring exile,
but hallucinating of home, and love, and war.
I'll end my days, withered, sorrowful,
mourning all of these words,
wondering why I was not loved enough,
why I loved not enough.… (altro)