The Canticles I: (mmxvii) [Paperback]

The second part of Book I of The Canticles continues the dialogue -- as dramatic monologues -- of those who fostered the transatlantic slave trade, or who demonized the image of the Negro in the Occident; as well as those who struggled for liberation and/or anti-racism. In this work, Dante can critique Christopher Columbus and Frederick Douglass can upbraid Abraham Lincoln; Elizabeth Barrett Browning can muse on her African racial heritage and its implications for child-bearing, while Karl Marx can excoriate Queen Victoria.George Elliott Clarke is poet, novelist, librettist, playwright, and scholar. An Africadian, he has won national and international awards for his poetry. Currently Parliamentary Poet Laureate, Clarke is also the E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto.