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Blue Clerk : Ars Poetica in 59 Versos by Dionne Brand (2018, Hardcover)

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Dive into the world of poetry and social justice with Dionne Brand's "The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos." This hardcover edition published by Duke University Press in 2018 offers a compelling exploration of Canadian poetry, Black studies, and LGBTQ+ issues. The book spans 248 pages and challenges readers to think deeply about identity, language, and power. Measuring 8.5 x 5.7 inches with a modest 0.6-inch profile, this accessible size ensures it fits comfortably in your hands or on your shelf. Whether you're a seasoned poet, a student of social science, or simply looking for a thought-provoking read, this book is an essential addition to any collection.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherDuke University Press

ISBN-101478000066

ISBN-139781478000068

eBay Product ID (ePID)240168101

Product Key Features

Book TitleBlue Clerk : Ars Poetica in 59 Versos

Number of Pages248 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicCanadian, Black Studies (Global), General, Lgbt

Publication Year2018

GenrePoetry, Social Science

AuthorDionne Brand

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight16 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2018-019511

ReviewsBrand astonishes me and drives me to look up words such as 'brindle' and 'xylem.' Is it because she is a poet that she can revivify language like this, while moving so fluidly through histories, music, and philosophy? . . . The book unfolds in meditative fragments titled 'verso,' and I have come to believe that Brand can see through a written page to its hidden side., The Blue Clerk has already been hailed as an 'instant classic' in the national media, and its premise carefully mapped. Brand tells the story of her unfolding consciousness, using key moments of her life to suggest the various shifts and epiphanies that inform each of her previous works--it is, indeed, her Ars Poetica , her attempt to articulate the underlying aesthetic philosophy of her oeuvre., The Blue Clerk is nothing less than a reckoning with the entirety of Brand's poetic outlook and philosophy., An 'ars poetica' and instant modern classic. . . . The Blue Clerk is beautiful--physically beautiful--in the nakedness of its stitched blue spine. But the book is beautiful, most substantially, in its sumptuous and incendiary prose, in its fierce challenge to the illusions of literature, and in its manifest belief in the act of writing., If you've been reading Brand for decades, The Blue Clerk is written for you, right down to its index. If you are a new reader of Brand, The Blue Clerk was also written for you: it's a fascinating dialogue about the work of poetry that is wry, exacting, and alive with a finely-wrought hope., It takes a truly gifted writer to not only write about the queer experience as identity, but to also skillfully and astutely motion to the entire concept of temporal universality. The Blue Clerk may be one of the best collections of prose poems I've read in a long while., At times brilliant and also opaque, The Blue Clerk is a major achievement that challenges us to reflect on writing as an unsettled and unsettling form of engagement with experience and meaning. . . . Readers . . . will be rewarded if they occasionally pause, take time to reflect, and reread this rich and enriching book., "Brand's lines are unique and quite comfortable to get lost in." -- Nick Ripatrazone The Millions " The Blue Clerk is nothing less than a reckoning with the entirety of Brand's poetic outlook and philosophy." -- Steven W. Beattie Quill & Quire "It takes a truly gifted writer to not only write about the queer experience as identity, but to also skillfully and astutely motion to the entire concept of temporal universality. The Blue Clerk may be one of the best collections of prose poems I've read in a long while." -- July Westhale Lambda Literary Review "An 'ars poetica' and instant modern classic. . . . The Blue Clerk is beautiful--physically beautiful--in the nakedness of its stitched blue spine. But the book is beautiful, most substantially, in its sumptuous and incendiary prose, in its fierce challenge to the illusions of literature, and in its manifest belief in the act of writing." -- David Chariandy The Walrus "At times brilliant and also opaque, The Blue Clerk is a major achievement that challenges us to reflect on writing as an unsettled and unsettling form of engagement with experience and meaning. . . . Readers . . . will be rewarded if they occasionally pause, take time to reflect, and reread this rich and enriching book." -- Jim Hannan World Literature Today " The Blue Clerk has already been hailed as an 'instant classic' in the national media, and its premise carefully mapped. Brand tells the story of her unfolding consciousness, using key moments of her life to suggest the various shifts and epiphanies that inform each of her previous works--it is, indeed, her Ars Poetica , her attempt to articulate the underlying aesthetic philosophy of her oeuvre." -- Gregory Betts Canadian Literature "If you've been reading Brand for decades, The Blue Clerk is written for you, right down to its index. If you are a new reader of Brand, The Blue Clerk was also written for you: it's a fascinating dialogue about the work of poetry that is wry, exacting, and alive with a finely-wrought hope." -- Tanis MacDonald Arc Poetry Magazine "Brand astonishes me and drives me to look up words such as 'brindle' and 'xylem.' Is it because she is a poet that she can revivify language like this, while moving so fluidly through histories, music, and philosophy? . . . The book unfolds in meditative fragments titled 'verso,' and I have come to believe that Brand can see through a written page to its hidden side." -- Selby Wynn Schwartz The Guardian

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal811.54

Table Of ContentCover One Stipule Verso 1 Stipule Verso 1.1.01 Verso 2 Verso 2.01 Verso 2.1 Verso 2.2 Verso 2.2.1 Verso 2.3 Verso 2.3.1 Verso 2.4 Verso 2.5 Verso 3 Verso 3.01 Verso 3.1 Verso 3.2 Verso 3.3 Verso 3.3.1 Verso 3.3.2 Verso 3.4 Verso 3.5 Verso 3.6 Verso 3.7 Verso 3.8 Verso 4 Verso 5 Verso 5.0.1 Verso 5.1 Verso 5.2 Verso 5.2.1 Verso 5.5 Verso 5.5.1 Verso 6 Verso 6.1 Verso 6.2 Verso 6.3 Verso 7 Verso 8 Verso 8.1 Verso 9 Verso 9.1 Two Stipule Verso 10.01 Verso 10.1 Verso 10.1.01 Verso 10.2 Verso 10.3 Verso 10.4 Verso 11 Verso 12 Verso 13 Verso 13.1 Verso 13.1.1 Verso 14 Three Verso 15 Verso 15.1 Verso 15.2 Verso 16 Verso 16.1 Verso 16.2 Verso 16.2.1 Verso 16.3 Verso 16.4 Verso 16.5 Verso 16.6 Verso 16.7 Verso 16.8 Verso 17 Verso 18 Verso 18.1 Verso 18.2 Verso 18.3 Verso 18.4.1 Verso 18.4.2 Verso 18.4.3 Verso 19 Verso 19.001 Verso 19.01 Verso 19.1 Verso 19.2 Verso 20 Verso 20.01 Verso 20.02 Verso 20.1 Verso 20.2 Verso 21 Verso 21.1 Verso 21.2 Verso 21.3 Verso 21.3.1 Verso 21.4 Verso 21.5 Verso 21.6 Verso 22 Verso 0.1 Verso 0.1.2 Verso 23 Verso 24 Verso 24.1 Verso 24.2 Verso 24.3 Verso 25 Verso 25.1 Verso Verso Verso Verso Verso 26 Verso 27 Four Verso 28 Verso 29 Verso 30 Verso 30.1 Verso 30.2 Verso 31 Verso 32 Verso 32.1 Verso 32.2 Verso 33 Verso 33.1 Verso Verso Verso Verso 33.2 Verso 33.3 Verso 34 Verso 34.1 Verso 34.2 Verso 35 Verso 35.1 Verso 35.2 Verso 36 Verso 36.1 Verso 36.2 Verso 37 Verso 37.1 Verso 38 Verso 38.1 Verso 38.2 Verso 38.3 Verso 39 Verso 40 Verso 40.1.1 Verso 40.1.1 Verso 40.1.2 Verso 40.2 Verso 40.3 Verso 40.4 Verso 40.5 Verso 40.6 Verso 41 Verso 41.1 Verso 42 Verso 42.1 Verso 43 Verso 44 Verso 45 Verso 46 Verso 47 Verso 48 Verso 49 Verso 50 Verso 51 Verso 51.1 Verso 52 Verso 53 Verso 54 Verso 54.1 Verso 55 Verso 56 Verso 57 Verso 58 Verso 58.1 Verso 58.2 Verso 59 Verso 59.1 Verso 59.2 Index 1 Verso 33.1

SynopsisIn The Blue Clerk renowned poet Dionne Brand explores memory, language, culture, and the nature of writing through a series of haunting prose poems that contain dialogues between the figure of the poet and the Blue Clerk, who is tasked with managing the poet's discarded attempts at writing., On a lonely wharf a clerk in an ink-blue coat inspects bales and bales of paper that hold a poet's accumulated left-hand pages--the unwritten, the withheld, the unexpressed, the withdrawn, the restrained, the word-shard. In The Blue Clerk renowned poet Dionne Brand stages a conversation and an argument between the poet and the Blue Clerk, who is the keeper of the poet's pages. In their dialogues--which take shape as a series of haunting prose poems--the poet and the clerk invoke a host of writers, philosophers, and artists, from Jacob Lawrence, Lola Kiepja, and Walter Benjamin to John Coltrane, Josephine Turalba, and Jorge Luis Borges. Through these essay poems, Brand explores memory, language, culture, and time while intimately interrogating the act and difficulty of writing, the relationship between the poet and the world, and the link between author and art. Inviting the reader to engage with the resonant meanings of the withheld, Brand offers a profound and moving philosophy of writing and a wide-ranging analysis of the present world.

LC Classification NumberPR9199