Gold
The poems in聽Gold聽glitter. From the lush, unrestrained and unabashed tumble and thrust of his sensual lyrics (vivid expressions of love and lust which brook no admonishment) to the measured and stately resonance of his eulogies for community organizers, tributes to leaders and laureates, and contemplations on the principles for good governance, George Elliott Clarke strives to enact Robinson Jeffers鈥檚 assertion that 鈥淏eauty. . . Is the sole business of poetry.鈥 Whether it be in the whiskey-hue of skin or the metal of the love in one鈥檚 heart, the poems in聽Gold聽riff on the colour鈥檚 cultural and poetic properties, joining聽Blue,听Black, and聽Red聽as the fourth volume in Clarke鈥檚 series of 鈥榗olouring鈥 books.
George Elliott Clarke is a poet, playwright and scholar born in Windsor, Nova Scotia.
Other publications from this author include:
- Portia White: A Portrait in Words (2019)
- These Are the Words (2018)
- Locating Home: The First African-Canadian Novel and Verse Collections (2018)
- The Motorcyclist (2017)
- The Merchant of Venice (Retried) (2017)
- Canticles I: (MMXVII) (2017)
- Canticles I: (MMXVI) (2016)
- Extra Illicit Sonnets (2015)
- Traverse (2014)
- Illicit Sonnets (2013)
- Lasso the Wind: Aurelia's Verses and other Poems (2013)
- Directions Home: Approaches to African-Canadian Literature (2011)
- Red (2011)
- I & I (2009)
- Blues and Bliss: The Poetry of George Elliott Clarke (2008)
- Trudeau: Long March & Shining Path (2007)
- Black (2006)
- Illuminated Verses (2005)
- George and Rue (2005)
- Quebecite (2003)
- Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature (2002)
- Blue II (2001)
- Execution Poems : The Black Acadian Tragedy of George and Rue (2001)
- Blue (2001)
- Gold Indigoes (1999)
- Whylah Falls: A Play (1999)
- Beatrice Chancy (1999)
- Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African-Canadian Literature (1997)
- Lush Dreams, Blue Exile: Fugitive Poems : 1978-1993 (1994)
- Fire on the Water: An Anthology of Black Nova Scotian Writing, Volume Two (1992)
- Whylah Falls (1990)