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The Blue Clerk

Ars Poetica in 59 Versos

The Blue Clerk( )
Author: Brand, Dionne
ISBN:978-1-4780-0006-8
Publication Date:Aug 2018
Publisher:Duke University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $24.95USD $27.95
Book Description:

In The Blue Clerk renowned poet Dionne Brand explores memory, language, culture, and the nature of writing through a series of haunting prose poems that contain dialogues between the figure of the poet and the Blue Clerk, who is tasked with managing the poet's discarded attempts at writing.

Book Details
Pages:248
Detailed Subjects: Poetry / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.694 x 8.424 x 0.585 Inches
Book Weight:1 Pounds
Author Biography
Brand, Dionne (Author)
Dionne Brand was born in 1953 in Guayguayare, Trinidad and was educated at the University of Toronto and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

Brand was the founder and editor of Our Lives, Canada's first newspaper for black women. She has also worked on Fuse Magazine, The Harriet Tubman Review, Canadian Women Studies, and Research for Feminist Research. She also belongs to several community organizations including the Immigrant Women's Center and the Caribbean Peoples' Development Agency.

Brand's involvement in politics is prevalent in her books, Chronicles of the Hostile Sun, Rivers Have Sources, Trees Have Roots: Speaking of Racism and Primitive Offensive, and Land to Light On, for which she received a Governor General's Award. Brand has also directed Sister's in Struggle, Long Time Comin' and Older, Stronger, Wiser for the National Film Board of Canada.

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