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2008., Adult, Wilfrid Laurier University Press ; Gazelle [distributor] Call No: BLK 811.54 C598b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Blues singer, preacher, cultural critic, exile, Africadian, high modernist, spoken word artist, Canadian poet - these are but some of the voices of George Elliott Clarke. In a selection of Clarke's best work from his early poetry to his most recent, 'Blues & Bliss' offers readers a cross-section of those voices.
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[2001], Gaspereau Press Call No: BLK 811.54 C598e Edition: [Trade ed., New ed.]. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c1997., McClelland & Stewart Call No: BLK 811.54 B817l Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Click here to view
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2018., Frontenac House Poetry Call No: QWF BLK 811.6 E92n Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Nouveau Griot is the result of 20 years on stage and in studio. It is the text from four spoken word audio recordings made between 2004-2016: Invisible World, The Memorists, Language for Gods and ZENSHIP. This work is in the continuum of the griot, which is a French African word meaning "poet, singer and traveling musician [...] to whom supernatural powers are often attributed.""--
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c1995., Laureson Press Call No: BLK 811.54 C157o Edition: Revised edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2020., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: QWF BLK 811.6 R647r Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Hugh MacLennan poetry series.Summary Note: Those of us who've seen miracles know how to ask. / if you've asked, do you love me, i almost certainly / don't love you. This meditative, musically attentive collection explores the confounding nature of intimate relationships. Stephanie Roberts's poetic expression is often irreverent, unapologetic, and infused with humour that can take surprisingly grave turns. rushes from the river disappointment traverses city, country, and fantasy using nature as artery through the emotional landscape. As they wrestle to come to terms with the effects of uncertainty and grief on hope and belief, these diverse field notes are interspersed with the fabulous: a polar bear and owl engage in flirtation, a time traveller appears on a lake, an erotic scene takes place on a train, and we confront "people capable of eating popcorn at the movie of your agony." Roberts's language is dense with images and sometimes acrobatic. In poems that affirm love and desire as treasures fought for more than just felt, rushes from the river disappointment turns an unblinking gaze on the failures of courage that distance us from love.
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2017., General, Wesleyan University Press Call No: BLK 811.6 S559s Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Wesleyan poetry.Summary Note: "These poems trace a whole web of connections between the kinds of violence that affect people across the racial, ethnic, gender, class, sexual, national, and linguistic boundaries that do and do not divide us. How do we protect our humanity, our ability to feel deeply and think freely, in the face of a seemingly endless onslaught of physical, social, and environmental abuses? Where do we find language to describe, process, and check the attacks and injuries we see and suffer? What actions can break us out of the soul-numbing cycle of emotions, moving through outrage, mourning, and despair, again and again? In poems that span fragment to narrative and quiz to constraint, from procedure to prose and sequence to song, semiautomatic culls past and present for guides to a hoped-for future"--Provided by publisher.
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2021., Coach House Call No: BLK QWF 811.54 T457v Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The Voyage is a collection of poems culled from a lifetime of meditations on self, family, time, and ageing; it also reflects on political and social aspects of human lives, such as hubris, abuse of power, racism and oppression.
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2020., Coach House Books Call No: BLK 811.6 W721w Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "From Ian Williams, author of Reproduction, winner of the Giller Prize and a June 2020 Indie Next Great Read Frustrated by how tough the issues of our time are to solve - racial inequality, our pernicious depression, the troubled relationships we have with other people - Ian Williams revisits the seemingly simple questions of grade school for inspiration: if Billy has five nickels and Jane has three dimes, how many Black men will be murdered by police? He finds no satisfaction, realizing that maybe there are no easy answers to ineffable questions. Williams uses his characteristic inventiveness to find not just new answers but new questions, reconsidering what poetry can be, using math and grammar lessons to shape poems that invite us to participate. Two long poems cut through the text like vibrating basenotes, curiosities circle endlessly, and microaggressions spin into lyric. And all done with a light touch and a joyful sense of humour."--
