George Elliott Clarke
91亚色檚 Department of English is delighted to welcome celebrated poet, novelist, essayist, and dramatist George Elliott Clarke to 91亚色. Dr. Clarke will read from Canticles, the lyric-styled epic-in-progress he describes as his magnum opus. A brilliant fusion of Dante檚 Divine Comedy and Pound檚 Cantos, Canticles 渧iews History as a web of imperialism, enslavement, and insurrection as described by a fiery array of witnesses, from Cleopatra to Sally Hemings, from Napol茅on, brooding on the revolution in Saint Domingue, to W. E. B. Du Bois, reflecting on John Brown, Melville檚 meteor of the US Civil War.
Canada檚 7th Parliamentary Poet Laureate, Clarke is the author of Whylah Falls, Execution Poems, Beatrice Chancy, and The Motorcyclist. He will read on Thursday, October 26, at 8 p.m. in Arts 1046, on the first floor of the Arts and Administration Building. Admission is free.