
Traverse
George Elliott Clarke(Author)
Exile Editions (Publisher)
Published on 30. April 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
88 pages
978-1-55096-395-3 (ISBN)
Description
From Toronto's poet laureate (2012-15) comes a new book that is a tour de force in confessional verse. This autobiographical sequence in 980 lines contains 70 stanzas of "skeletal sonnets” composed, astonishingly, in one day and one evening.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto, ON
Canada
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
136 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55096-395-3 (9781550963953)
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George Elliott Clarke is a pioneering scholar of African Canadian literature and the E. J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto, having previously held posts at Duke University and McGill University. He is the author of 12 volumes of poetry, including Blue, Black, Red, and Execution Poems, which won the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 2001. He is currently the Poet Laureate of Toronto and the William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Chair in Canadian Studies at Harvard University. His many honors include the Portia White Prize for Artistic Achievement, the National Magazine Gold Medal for Poetry, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award, and an appointment to the Order of Canada at the rank of Officer, among others. He lives in Toronto.