Black

Black is the companion volume to the author’s acclaimed collection Blue. But while the previous book meditated on the author's history as a black man growing up in Nova Scotia, Black is a brutally honest look at the present and future. Inspired by George’s time as a professor in North Carolina in the late 1990s, the book uses vivid images and surprising juxtapositions to riff on the experiences of a black man living with political and personal outrage. This is not pretty poetry but lacerating, transgressive, and ultimately transforming.

• Author
• George Elliott Clarke

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 120

• Publisher
• Raincoast Books, Polestar

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781551929033

• Genres
• poetry

• Release date
• 2006