Born Sacred
£13.46
<p><b>Finalist, Dartmouth Book Award <br>Finalist, Acorn-Plantos Award for People’s Poetry </b></p><p>In the “Boogie Nights” era of the 1970s, Betty Browning and her lover, boxer Malcolm Miles, travel from the fog-anchored grime of Halifax, Nova Scotia, to sunburnt Corpus Christi, Texas, and back — meeting tragedy and bloodshed along the way. <i>I & I</i> smoulders with love, lust, violence, and the excruciating repercussions of racism, sexism, and disgust. Rastafarian for “you and me,” “I & I” expresses the oneness of God and man, the oneness of two people or the distinction between body and spirit.</p> <p>In George Elliott Clarke’s hands, this existential aesthetic crystallizes in a love story of Gothic grit. The narrative gives this verse novel shape; the poetry makes it sing, straddling folk ballad, soul, and pop music, all the while moaning the blues.</p>
Born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, at the beginning of the 1960s, George Elliott Clarke is a seventh-generation Africadian. He has published more than a dozen volumes of poetry and prose, including Whylah Falls and Execution Poems, an acclaimed novel George & Rue, and the celebrated opera, Beatrice Chancy. His many awards include the Governor General's Award for poetry and the Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award.
- ISBN-13
- 9780864925138
- Publisher
- Goose Lane Editions
- Imprint
- Goose Lane Editions
- Publication date
- 30 January 2009
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 238
- Dimensions
- 216 x 140 mm
- Illustrations
- black & white
- Language
- English
