{"product_id":"canticles-iii-mmxxii-volume-298-paperback","title":"Canticles III (MMXXII): Volume 298 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeorge Elliott Clarke\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcclaimed for his narrative lyric suites (\u003ci\u003eWhylah Falls\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eExecution Poems\u003c\/i\u003e), his lyric \"colouring books\" (\u003ci\u003eBlue, Black, Red, and Gold\u003c\/i\u003e), his selected poems (\u003ci\u003eBlues and Bliss\u003c\/i\u003e), his opera libretti and plays (\u003ci\u003eBeatrice Chancy and Trudeau: Long March, Shining Path\u003c\/i\u003e), George Elliott Clarke now presents us with his epic-in-progress, \u003ci\u003eCanticles\u003c\/i\u003e, a work that views History as a web of imperialism, enslavement, and insurrection. A native Africadian, Canada's 7th Parliamentary Poet Laureate ranges the atlas and ransacks the library to ink lines unflinching before Atrocity and unquiet before Oppression.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 100\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2 x 8.6 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42725928992831,"sku":"9781771837538","price":29.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/f8b82873d23959c973dff114cdfc3e68.webp?v=1765108534","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/canticles-iii-mmxxii-volume-298-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}