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Poetry Canadian

travelogue of the bereaved

by (author) Charles C. Smith

Publisher
Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.
Initial publish date
May 2014
Category
Canadian, African American
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781927494561
    Publish Date
    May 2014
    List Price
    $11.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781927494349
    Publish Date
    May 2014
    List Price
    $20.95

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These remarkable and challenging poems confront the notion of "home." Closely attentive to form and content, narrative and emotion, history and the contemporary, and inspired by the techniques of jazz, travelogue of the bereaved tells stories that are little known--the lives of persons of African descent at different periods in the Americas. These stories speak to our times and their foundations, recreating figures such as Marie Josephe Angelique, Viola Desmond, John Brown, Maryann Shadd, and Mumia. Weaving between sections and using multiple forms, the collection exposes the transhistorical by linking each narrative to a more telling composition.

About the author

Charles Smith is Equity Advisor to the Canadian Bar Association and a Lecturer in Cultural Pluralism in the Arts at University of Toronto Scarborough.

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