Review
"Whylah Falls is a scintillating display of language. Clarke skillfully weaves together the mythic tapestry of his African-American Loyalist community, the Bible, blues, black argot, the whole spectrum of poetry both classical and modern dance together with the energy of a Stravinsky symphony." -- Toronto Star
Book Description
The long-awaited new work from one of Canada's leading intellectuals and poets, Black is a brilliant and fiery look at race and culture. Its genesis is Clark's time at Duke University in the late '90s; that experience unleashed political and personal outrage. This poetry is white-hot with honesty and anger. It is shocking, transgressive--and ultimately transforming.
About the Author
George Elliott Clarke (Toronto) is the E. J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto. His awards include the Portia White Prize, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Fellowship, a Governor General's Award for Poetry, the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Achievement Award and a Trudeau Foundation Fellowship. His book Whylah Falls was a CBC Canada Reads finalist.
