Blues and Bliss: The Poetry of George Elliott Clarke

Table of Contents

v Table of Contents Foreword, Neil Besner / vii Biographical Note / viii Introduction, Jon Paul Fiorentino / xi Salvation Army Blues / 1 Halifax Blues / 2 Hammonds Plains African Baptist Church / 3 Campbell Road Church / 4 Watercolour for Negro Expatriates in France / 5 Look Homeward, Exile / 8 The Wisdom of Shelley / 9 The River Pilgrim: A Letter / 10 Blank Sonnet / 12 The Symposium / 13 Rose Vinegar / 15 Blues for X / 16 Vision of Justice / 17 Chancy’s Menu / 18 Chancy’s Drinking Song / 19 Beatrice’s Defence / 20 George & Rue: Pure, Virtuous Killers / 21 Ballad of a Hanged Man / 22 Child Hood I / 24 Child Hood II / 25 Hard Nails / 26 Public Enemy / 27 The Killing / 28 Trial I / 30 Trial II / 31 Avowals / 32 Negation / 33 Calculated Offensive / 34 À Dany Laferrière / 35 Haligonian Market Cry / 36 Nu(is)ance / 37 Onerous Canon / 38 April 1, 19— / 40 from Blue Elegies I.i / 41 I.ii / 43 I.iii / 44 I.iv / 47 I.v / 48 I.vi / 50 Blues de Malcolm / 52 May ushers in with lilac / 53 George & Rue: Coda / 54 Letter to a Young Poet / 55 Of Black English, or Pig Iron Latin / 56 Africadian Experience / 57 Afterword: Let Us Now Attain Polyphonous Epiphanies, George Elliott Clarke / 59 Acknowledgements / 65 vi / Contents ...